It's Only A Girl - Music

Before The Power-Pop Movement Kicked Into High-Gear With The Success Of 1979’s Get The Knack And Cheap Trick’s Live At Budokan—pioneering Chicago-Based Group Pezband Had Already Blazed A Three-Year Trail Of Hard-Edged Hook-Laden And Harmony-Drenched Pop-Rock On Three Critically-Acclaimed Albums And Two Ferocious Live EPs. Unfortunately Pezband Was Caught In-Between The Power-Pop Boom Of The Early '70s—when Badfinger And The Raspberries Were Churning Out Hit Singles—and The Resurgence In The Very-Late '70s When The Knack And Cheap Trick Had Singles Success. Had Pezband Debuted A Few Years Earlier Or Later They Certainly Would Have Found A Larger Audience. Further The Group’s Choice Of Record Company The Long-Defunct New Jersey-Based Passport Records Probably Hurt Their Chances—as The Label Lacked The Promotional Resources To Break The Band Or Any Of Their Acts For That Matter . Though Pezband’s “Baby It’s Cold Outside ” And “Stop! Wait A Minute ” Are Staples Of Every “best-Of Power-Pop” Compilation—it Took Japanese Label Air Mail Recordings To Release The Long Out-Of Print Catalog Of 50 Pezband Tracks On Three CDs In 2005. In The United States Pop-Savvy Not Lame Records Is The Catalog's Online Distributor. read less