This, from the fall of 1977, is probably the worst recording I've got. The original was done on a tape recorder that was running too fast (defective or possibly voltage fluctuations in the local power supply), so it sounds low and sluggish when transferred to a normal machine.
That isn't the only thing wrong with it, though. I (unintentionally, I think) plagiarized part of it. Exactly from where I wasn't sure, but I knew I'd heard part of the chord progression in the chorus. It wasn't until I got back to Canada and my record collection that I could track it down. The Dutch rock band Golden Earring had had a major hit a few years before with "Radar Love." So naturally everyone went out and bought their second (at least their second North American released) album, Switch. It was a pretty good album as I recall, even if it didn't have "Radar Love - the Sequel" on it. It did have a song called "Ce Soir," that must have caught my attention because I'm pretty sure that it's the scene of the crime. Here's Golden Earring performing it on a TV show:
I wasn't terribly upset about it -- as far as I was concerned it just showed I had good instincts. I would later go on to steal greater songs from even greater bands. But a boy always remembers his first.