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
Laurie Ingalls Devil's Daughter Cheap Champagne
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre an ode to d a levy Awake in th Red Desert
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
The Haunted Shake ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Flyin' C.P.R. Northland's Own
Garden Bower 18 Bricker Etc. w/ Trains
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Fred Latremouille Tossin' and Turnin' Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Cargo Talk With Us Front Side, Back Side
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Lost Soul Dept. Wild-Weekend Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Emtidi Die Reise Saat
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Chantettes Un Canadian Errant Remember.....
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Thornton Rogers J. The Blues Out in the West b/w The Blues
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Dutch Mason Dust My Broom Half Ain't Been Told
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
May Run Lay Your Hands Days Into Years
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys Things That Might Have Been Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
A Joint Effort Champagne Junction Final Effort
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation II Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Good Morning Blues ST
Sheila Graham Little Green Apples ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Nihilist Spasm Band Dog Face Man No Record
David Little Boys ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Skarecrow Ballad of Glen & Trevor Blues...Live at the Explorer
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) You Know The Science Year Zero
Roger Rodier Let's see some happyness Upon Velveatur
Billy Martin Egg Roll Strawberry Soul
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Garden Bower Gord’s Dream Etc. w/ Trains
Caribou Lune ST
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Laurie Ingalls Sailing Cheap Champagne
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
May Run (In My Way) Tonite Days Into Years
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als I'm Happy Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Canadian Beadles Love Walk Away Three Faces North
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre is yr car 2 soft 4 th road Awake in th Red Desert
No Exit Decisions ST
David Cup of Tea ST
A Joint Effort Battle of New Orleans Final Effort
Stefan Gnys Machine English Oaks and Evangeline
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Boys Brigade Portrait Live Off-The-Floor Demo
May Run The Only One Days Into Years
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
Cargo Rural Route One Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Oil in the Ground "Coming Out"
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Until Nine ST (psych cover)
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
Brazda Brothers Blooming Flowers ST
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Ray Griff Mama, This One's for You Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Stage 3: Bossanova The Optic Earful
Grimes Zoal, Face Dancer Geidi Primes
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
Blind Owl Song To the Wind ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre and th green wind Awake in th Red Desert
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silver Bells Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Willie Dunn Protest Song Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Smile Maria Smile The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today
Ray Griff Sweet Bird of Youth Canada "My Native Land"

Ready to Rock b/w (with Gerry Fiander)

Gerry Fiander with Elvis Presley (History Van R&R Vol 1)

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison / Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)

Gone Dead Out

Dis Band

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 02

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 01

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out BACK

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out FRONT FOLDOUT

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

ST

Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

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