YANK BARRY: The Diary Of Mr. Gray (Canada McConnell Records Ltd. 2-001, QUADRAPHONIC)

• Condition : Box is strong EX, slightest imperfecions, LPs and everything else are NM.
• Description : Where do I start with this one...extrememely rare circa mid 1970s 2LP box set from weird spinoff of Stone Circus (the band on Mainstream from 1969). I think this was made in Canada but it may have merely been recorded there. Anyway, Larry Cohen of Stone Circus somehow turned that band's album track "Mr. Gray" into an elaborate 2LP box-set concept album, in quadraphonic sound, no less. No idea how he pulled this off but he hired one Yank Barry as the lead singer, who is given top billing here, plus a band including people like Vinnie Bell, Don MacDonald, David Spinozza, Tony Levin and Phil Bodner. OK: what is included here is as follows: faux-leather outer box with gold-leaf title on front and sepia-tone slicks with photos on inside, 2LPs in tan innersleeves, a 78RPM mono 10" one-sided "Introduction To" record in old-style craft paper sleeve that's meant to be played before the LPs(!), a lyric insert, three stiff cardboard flats to keep the box from crushing, and six other smaller inserts! Not much info around on this one; doesn't say what sort of quad encoding is used either. The introduction 10" is spoken over a female vocal chorus: "Mister Gray...he was a friend of mine. Oh yeah, he went mad...they say it was the drugs". The LP itself is nothing like Stone Circus- it's orchestrated '70s pop-rock with very elaborate arrangements and some jazzy / proggy elements, it works for what it is but it ain't really 'rock music', more like some sort of insane showtunes vibe. I've never seen one of these before and I would be very surprised if I ever see another- how many did they make? Were these guys 1970s coke barons or something?

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