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
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Teaser Royal American 20th Century Blues
A Joint Effort Oh! Canada Final Effort
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Ya Ya Chip Dip
Jackie Mittoo Harder than the Rest Stepping Tiger
Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Sheila Graham Without You ST
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
Opposite Land of 1000 Dances Help Us Make It
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Langley Schools Music Project Calling Occupants Wix - Brown Elementary School
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST
Matlows Only You If You Were Mine // Only You
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Plastic Cloud Civilization Machine ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Spring Fever I Just Want to Make Love to You Woodstock
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
Skeptical Eye Sad Jazz The Devil's Playground
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Barbara Gryfe Evening of Roses What the World Needs Now
Lewis Baloue Cool Night In Paris L'amour
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre all th brite eyez deep in the rivr bed Sonic Horses I
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
The Fringe Flower Generation Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
Spade Nielsen What's Happening Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Intersystems Lately Number One
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Walkin' the Dog Chip Dip
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Christmas Song Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
VXN Putting Love Aside Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Lewis Baloue Where Did My Love Go Away Romantic Times
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
Mike Harris Bill Cheatem Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Boys Brigade Cut Up Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Marty Gillan Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday Try A Little Kindness
Stompin' Tom Connors Luke's Guitar The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Catseye It's a Long Way Catseye
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Reign Ghost Reaching ST
David Wiffen Four Strong Winds Live at the Bunkhouse
Compilation Shades of Blond - All Your Love International Master Discovery Records
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
The Amen Peter Zeus Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Barbara Gryfe If I Were a Rich Girl What the World Needs Now
Catseye Hedgegate Catseye
EQ Help a Bruva Out Swellsville
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers You Got the Green Light The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Mantra Simple Joys (D'arcy Draper) ST
British North American Act Baby Jane Days and Nights In the Beginning
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
Glenn Dixon Dreamer Parts 1-3 Reflections
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Langley Schools Music Project Mandy Wix - Brown Elementary School
David Fromager Radio Madness If What You Said Was True
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Lewis Baloue Summer's Moon L'amour
Boys Brigade Shadows Live Off-The-Floor Demo
The Organization Happiness ST
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Jerry Palmer Love's Come to Me String of Hits

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

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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, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

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

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