Rarest Canadian Music

Rarest Canadian Music

Welcome to the deep end of the archive—an unparalleled collection of Canada’s most elusive, obscure, and impossible-to-find recordings. Private press LPs, vanished 45s, cassette-only gems, and forgotten studio experiments—all rescued from the brink of silence. Spanning every genre and region, RAREST CANADIAN MUSIC shines a light on the voices, visions, and vinyl that slipped through the cracks of mainstream history. Unearthed, digitized, and preserved—this is Canada’s hidden soundtrack.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
John Palmer Return Shorelines
Mantra Simple Joys (D'arcy Draper) ST
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Jarvis Street Revue Sally's Hymn (Smoker's Funeral Song) Mr. Oil Man
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Huckle Good Morning Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Skarecrow Can't Judge a Book Blues...Live at the Explorer
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Walkin' the Dog Chip Dip
Plastic Cloud You Don't Care ST
Haunted A Message to Pretty ST
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair (Jazz Version) ST
Ablaze Psycho Path Psychopath
Spring Fever Spring Fever Woodstock
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Swords of Gold ST
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Teaser Royal American 20th Century Blues
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
Reign Ghost Breast Stroke Blues Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST
Don Carrington Trio If I Were a Carpenter Makin' It Happen
Jeremy Dormouse Baby Blue Toad
Rockadrome Good Dream Royal American 20th Century Blues
David Fromager My Woman Left Me If What You Said Was True
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
VXN Illusion of the Heart ST
Braineaters Screw You Planet X
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Catseye Images Catseye
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Lewis Baloue It's a New Day Romantic Times
Jim Morrison Ready to Rock Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Blind Owl The Old Man ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Only Takes a Minute "Coming Out"
Clymaxe R. U. Cumming? R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Trevor Dandy When I Prayed Last Night Don't Cry Little Tree
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden
Jeremy Dormouse I Need a Friend Toad
Stompin' Tom Connors May, The Millright's Daughter Northland's Own
King Herbert And the Knights Sing a Simple Song With Jack Harden
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Ellison Seal a Beam Bow (Vincent Marandola) ST
Ardels Night Time is the Right Time Rhythm & Blues
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
David Wiffen Courtin' in the Kitchen Live at the Bunkhouse
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Jerry Palmer Travelin' Shoes String of Hits
Pepper Tree The Gypsy Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Brazda Brothers Calm River ST
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Emtidi Love Time Rain Saat
Billy Martin Prayer Meetin' Strawberry Soul
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Passive & Blue Commercials For Free (EP)
Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes
Grimes Beast Infection Geidi Primes
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
The Organization Together Forever ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Perth County Conspiracy Hurdy-Gurdy Man ST
Hugh Dixon What's New The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Uncertain Wipeout Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Blind Owl Roads ST
David Hey Jude ST
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Plastic Cloud Bridge Under the Sky ST
Sweet Somethings Going Out of My Head - Can't Take My Eyes Off You hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Rascalz Quest for Rhyme Really Livin'
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Roger Rodier The Key Upon Velveatur
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
Sound Sett She Ain't No Use to Me (Dave Bingham & Roger Mayne, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967

ST

Compilation

ST

GUESS289-color

Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 02

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 01

45-Something Evil-The Great Winnipeg Riot BACK

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Something Evil

Heat

45-Heat - Brighouse bw Rocking Chair VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

1987-05-24_Sacrifice + Ablaze + Faulkwolf_Bathurst Theatre (Toronto)_orange original flyer reduced

ST

ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Sussex

Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Comments

Robert Williston

ok. thanks. I'll get those posted in the next little while....RW

Anonymous

oops - correct title of the Rockadrome album is "Royal American 20th Century Blues" - vk

Anonymous

I'd like to nominate: the first Cargo album (Front Side Back Side), bil bisset & mandan massacre (Awake in th Red Desert), the first two Intersystems albums, Jeff Moore & Friends (The Youngest Son), the second Reign Ghost album (featuring Lynda Squires), and Rockadrome (20th Century Royal American Blues) - vk