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
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Walter Boudreau Danse Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
EQ Come Alive (King Otto Remix) Swellsville
Art Snider It Was a Very Good Year Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Ted Daigle Young & Beautiful Teenage Time
Boys Brigade Mannequin Mannequin Demo
Stephanie Taylor Windmills of Your Mind "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair ST
Randy Bishop Felicitas I Sing A Soft Song
Medium Two by Two ST
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Stefan Gnys Evangeline English Oaks and Evangeline
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers What'd I Say Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes
The Amen Peter Zeus Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Jerry Palmer Travelin' Shoes String of Hits
Pat's People Our Father Today
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Rated "X" "Coming Out"
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Art Snider Nasty Arthur Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silver Bells Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Compilation New Brands - Ace Up His Sleeve International Master Discovery Records
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Glenn Dixon As Our Days Fly By Reflections
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Other Half Swinging Shepherd ST
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Stefan Gnys Horizoning English Oaks and Evangeline
Haunted Out of Time ST
Marty Gillan She's a Woman (Terry Frewer) Try A Little Kindness
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Dream on Dreamer ST
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Modern Rock Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
David Fromager Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
Riverson Take Me (Rayburn Blake) ST
Sweet Somethings He's My Soul Baby hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Lucio Agostini Reel Once Upon a Hundred Years
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Squires The Sultan The Sultan b/w Aurora
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Mantra Stay (D'arcy Draper) ST
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Nick Ayoub Quintet Two and The Montreal Scene
Sound Sett Just in Case You're Wonderin (David Byngham & Glynn Bell, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Ted Daigle Legend of Chaleur Bay Teenage Time
British North American Act Baby Jane Days and Nights In the Beginning
Perth County Conspiracy Hurdy-Gurdy Man ST
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
Boys Brigade Black + White Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Boys Brigade Touch Glass Mannequin Demo
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
John Greenwood 3/4 Time My Sailboat and Me
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
David Little Boys ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
April Wine Shotdown The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Dutch Mason Gamblin' Fever Half Ain't Been Told
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
Chantettes Come and Go With Me Remember.....
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Chantettes Freight Train Remember.....

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, 🇨🇦

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Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

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

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Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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