Girls About Town (EP)

{{Infobox album

| name = Girls About Town

| type = ep

| artist = The Smithereens

| cover = Girls About Town (The Smithereens album - cover art).jpg

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| released = 31 October 1980[https://officialsmithereens.com/music/girls-about-town/ Girls About Town (EP)]. Officialsmithereens.com. Retrieved on 12 February 2018.

| recorded = Chelsea Sound, NYC, 1980{{cite magazine|url=http://www.goldminemag.com/articles/the-smithereens-are-still-rocking-after-30-years|title=The Smithereens are still rocking after 30 years|magazine=Goldmine|first=Patrick|last=Prince|date=May 31, 2010|accessdate=1 February 2018}}

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| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length =

| label = D-Tone Records

| producer = The Smithereens

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Beauty and Sadness

| next_year = 1983

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Girls About Town is the debut EP by the American rock band The Smithereens.{{Cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=smithereens|title=TrouserPress.com :: Smithereens|website=www.trouserpress.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/4/11/18382935/in-the-music-spotlight-the-smithereens|title=In the music spotlight: The Smithereens|first=Jeff Elbel-For the|last=Sun-Times|date=April 11, 2018|website=Chicago Sun-Times}} It was released on 31 October 1980 on the band's own D-Tone Records. The EP contains four songs with the word ‘girl‘ in the title, including "Girl Don't Tell Me," a song originally recorded by The Beach Boys.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezTpDAAAQBAJ&q=Girls+About+Town+%28EP%29+smithereens&pg=PA318|title=New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB|first=Steven|last=Blush|date=October 4, 2016|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9781250083616|via=Google Books}}

The 7" EP has never been available in any other format, though two of its tracks were included on Smithereens compilation albums: the title track on Attack of The Smithereens and From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology; and "Girl Don't Tell Me" on Covers.

Background

“We had a bunch of songs with ‘girl’ in the title, and "Girls About Town" was the song that everyone thought was our best live song. It was the song that we thought, at the time, had the most commercial potential, so we called the EP Girls About Town and to round it off, we made it an EP that featured the word ‘girl’ in all four songs.” -Pat DiNizio

Track listing

All songs written by Pat DiNizio, except "Girl Don't Tell Me" by Brian Wilson.

  1. "Girls About Town"
  2. "Girl Don't Tell Me"
  3. "Got Me a Girl"
  4. "Girls Are Like That"

Personnel

Adapted from the EP's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Girls About Town|type=EP liner notes|others=The Smithereens|publisher=D-Tone Records|year=1980}}

;The Smithereens

;Additional personnel

  • Alan Varner – mixing
  • Justine Strait – art

References

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