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
Ronney Mitchell Time Alone Will Tell The Five Man Cargo
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Do You Agree With Me ST (psych cover)
Lucio Agostini Voyageur Canoe Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Dis Band I'm Tired Gone Dead Out
Sacrifice Warrior of Death The Exorcism
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
Nina Dunn Stay and Dance If You Want My Love (Do It) b/w Stay and Dance
Cargo Say Goodbye Front Side, Back Side
Jeremy Dormouse Small Man Toad
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
Sheila Graham Aquarius ST
Langley Schools Music Project Desperado Wix - Brown Elementary School
Billy Martin It's Your Life Strawberry Soul
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
The Haunted Untie Me ST
Jerry Palmer Travelin' Shoes String of Hits
Barry Ennis Mountain of Ice Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Braineaters Screw You Planet X
Original Bones I Went Walkin' ST
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
David Fromager My Woman Left Me If What You Said Was True
Chantettes Harry Was a Communist Remember.....
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Caribou Trou perce ST
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
The Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Canadian Beadles Whole Lot of Shakin Going On Three Faces North
No Exit Decisions ST
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
Hazel McKirdy End of the World End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Jolly Tambourine Man Mold in My Ears Wheeeee! Demo
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Laurie Ingalls Peace Country Cheap Champagne
Gargoyle Ian Young - 8th and 25th of December 1969 ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Roads to New York Country and Rock & Roll Sound
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Brazda Brothers Civilization ST
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Song The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Jack London & the Sparrows Our Love has Passed ST
VXN Could it Be ST
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Three ST
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
Twice Upon a Never California Dreamin' Twice Upon a Never
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
High Park Let Go the Lifeline Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Buck Shots ST
Jeremy Dormouse High Flying Bird Toad
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Duet: Photomodifications The Optic Earful
Dutch Mason Baby Please Don't Go Half Ain't Been Told
Stephanie Taylor Feeling Groovy "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Lord Ryur Pact With The Sinner Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
No Exit When Will They Learn? ST
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th deacon bros in barbados Awake in th Red Desert
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Blind Owl Lingering Dreams ST
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Sweet Somethings Going Out of My Head - Can't Take My Eyes Off You hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Lewis Baloue Like To See You Again L'amour
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Hugh Dixon Esquire Shuffle (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Song From Beads ST
Marty Gillan Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday Try A Little Kindness
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Spring Fever Mama, What About Your Daughter Woodstock
The Other Half Thoughts ST
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Terry & The Pyrates Someone Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Billy Martin Egg Roll Strawberry Soul
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Clockwork Cybernaut Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Bear Paws House of the Rising Sun Kitche-Ogamah
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Until Nine ST (psych cover)

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