Canadian Conspiracy were a short lived 7 piece band from Toronto in the early 70's. This band were formed by members from two other groups. Band members included trumpteres Gart Greenword and Alex "Big Al Glover', bassist Ron Camerson and Mike Heath, guitarist Ricky Voigt, tromboniest Brian Mckay and Doug "Bummy" Jackson, drummer Albi Koteles and keyboardist Stevie Beach
The vocal duties were shared across the band with lead vocals falling in the great voice of Ron Cameron.
They do a killer version of MacArthur Park with a horns, synths and great emotive vocals. On many songs they even pull out and plug in my favourite the MELLOTRON.
They also do a great little Righteous Brothers Medley and once again mix the brass with the strings of the mellotron........man these guys should have been huge!
The band traveled across Canada and even into the US. In 1976 Conspiracy recorded 2 singles : "Night Chaser" and "Watcha Gonna Do When The Rain Starts Fallin'. The band sadly split in 1977 and remain hidden in Canada's music past.
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