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
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
The Fringe Flower Generation Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Ardels Linda Lou Rhythm & Blues
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Ray Griff Maple Leaf Canada "My Native Land"
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Robert Armes Imagine a World With No Music Songs for Icarus
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Athenians of Toronto Opi Aniko San Skoteiniazei
Christmas Sorry I Bore You Victoria ST
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Count Baculis ST
Biggy Twiggy Band I Don't Want That to Change Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Fred Latremouille Tossin' and Turnin' Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Jerry Palmer Got a Love String of Hits
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Intersystems Orange Juice & Velvet Underwear Number One
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Moon Raker James Bond 007
British North American Act Corduroy Coat In the Beginning
Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Blind Owl Roads ST
Marty Gillan I Ain't Done Yet (Theme from the T.V. Series "The Manipulators") (Bobby Hales) Try A Little Kindness
Nucleus Johnny Peace Johnny Peace b/w Ernie's Gone (picture sleeve)
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
Souls of Inspyration Eyes of Nature ST
Mike Harris Andy's Favorite Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Stefan Gnys Evangeline English Oaks and Evangeline
Lewis Baloue Where Did My Love Go Away Romantic Times
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Ray Griff Sweet Bird of Youth Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project Saturday Night Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
David Wiffen You'll Never Make a Dollar That Way Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Brazda Brothers Share With Love ST
Huckle High For Sky Wild Blue Yonder
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Mike Harris Orange Blossom Special Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Diodes The Curse - War Raw / War (split with The Curse)
Garden Bower 18 Bricker Etc. w/ Trains
Jack London & the Sparrows Take it Slow (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
The Organization Who Ever Finds This ST
Stompin' Tom Connors Streets of Toronto Northland's Own
Cargo Black Window Front Side, Back Side
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Garden Bower Gord’s Dream Etc. w/ Trains
Fabulous PJ's What Do You Want Me to Do? What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
King Beezz She Belongs to Me Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
New Creation No Excuse Troubled
Randy Bishop I Sing a Soft Song I Sing A Soft Song
Moonstone In Case ST
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Brad Richards Send a Little Love My Way Right Time for Love
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
Jim Brown Bruce Clarke - Of Spiralling Why The First See Hear
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Derek Scott Markle Southern Lady ST
Dutch Mason Gamblin' Fever Half Ain't Been Told
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation II Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Marty Gillan Try a Little Kindness Try A Little Kindness
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Compilation - International Master Discovery Records

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Shades of Blond - All Your Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Strawberry Soul

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

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

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