New Kid In Town Master

1973 I recorded a few years ago just before I started re-gigging.

1973

I wrote this track 45 years ago and it has a bit of a story with it. When I wrote it back in 1976 I took it to Decca Records in London and left it with an A & R guy who wanted to listen to it, anyway at the time I was still living with mum and dad above our shop, unfortunately an oil tanker crashed straight through the shop and completely destroyed our home and Master tapes along with it. 
The A & R guy from Decca who I think was called Mick Tagger must have heard about what happened and sent me the 15 ips copy back to me. I didn’t have a 15 ips tape deck and therefore have never played the original which is my next mission.
I re-recorded the song with a new arrangement 25 years ago but I only had a DAT copy of the recording and unfortunately the DAT player blew up, so I had not played it for 20 plus years until I was able to get hold of a second hand DAT player. I managed to salvage three tracks from the deteriorated tapes which sound worse for wear but at least managed to get something back.

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