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
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On to Rouyn Northland's Own
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Dreams in Fall ST
Grimes Avi Geidi Primes
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to You ST
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Ronney Mitchell Time Alone Will Tell The Five Man Cargo
Threads Of Fybre Mama Mama b/w Believe Me
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Robert Armes Requiem Songs for Icarus
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Moosetracks Hangman ST
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Robert Armes Imagine a World With No Music Songs for Icarus
Reign Ghost Reaching ST
Black Knight Born To Rock Master of Disaster (EP)
EQ Step Up Swellsville
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
The Chessmen Mustang Mustang b/w Meadowlands
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
Reign Ghost Solar Nice Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Huckle Hello Sunshine Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Here Is Year Zero
Chantettes Harry Was a Communist Remember.....
Langley Schools Music Project In My Room Wix - Brown Elementary School
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Ray Griff D-Dogies Canada "My Native Land"
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ellison Unchanged World (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand, Robert Cager, Christian Tremblay) ST
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Rogues I Can't Hold Out Much Longer I Can't Hold Out Much Longer b/w I'll Make It Up To You
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Ellison Untruth Story (Vincent Marandola) ST
Rockadrome Royal American Twentieth Century Blues Royal American 20th Century Blues
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
Tex Lecor John McNally Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
John Palmer Better Later Than Never Shorelines
Derek Scott Markle Could She Fly ST
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Huckle The Sunshine Shuffle Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Sweet Somethings My Guy (From My Girl) hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Ronney Mitchell It's Your Thing The Five Man Cargo
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Jeremy Dormouse Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy Toad
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Triaxe Chain of Superstition Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Jeff Moore & Friends Flying So High (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
November Grief Grass Is Gold To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Huckle Beyonder Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Medium New Thing ST
Arcade Fire Vampire Forest Fire ST
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre o a b a Awake in th Red Desert
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Langley Schools Music Project You're so Good to Me Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre and th green wind Awake in th Red Desert
Medium The Mouse ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Smile Maria Smile The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
VXN Illusion of the Heart ST
Chantettes Hush Little Baby Remember.....

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