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
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
Ted Daigle Sweet Little Sixteen Teenage Time
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Silhouette ST
Georges Leningrad chanson italienne Made In Taiwan
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
VXN Illusion of the Heart ST
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Jeremy Dormouse High Flying Bird Toad
Skeptical Eye Mama Does'n Understand The Devil's Playground
Lewis Baloue Cool Night In Paris L'amour
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Twice Upon a Never Come the Day Twice Upon a Never
Mystique No Return Black Rider
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Oil in the Ground "Coming Out"
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Lewis Baloue I Thought The World Of You L'amour
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Haunted Shake ST
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
Cargo Child of the Playroom Front Side, Back Side
EQ Serious Swellsville
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Style 386 Year Zero
Triaxe Chain of Superstition Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Twice Upon a Never Last Round Twice Upon a Never
Stefan Gnys Machine English Oaks and Evangeline
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Riverson Clear Night (Rayburn Blake) ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre and th green wind Awake in th Red Desert
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Echoes and a Dream Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull) Echoes and a Dream
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Canadian Beadles I'm Coming Home Three Faces North
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Theme from Swat "Coming Out"
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle I'll Take Romance ST
Pat's People Turn, Turn, Turn Today
David Wiffen Courtin' in the Kitchen Live at the Bunkhouse
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Squires Aurora The Sultan b/w Aurora
Jack London & the Sparrows Take it Slow (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
Sunshyne Eclypse & Sunny Day (Ross Barrett and Ken Spence) The Raven (EP)
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Hop The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Burgundy Ex-Lovin' Man Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Ray Griff Calgary, Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Barry Ennis Mountain of Ice Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Mike Harris Country Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
A Joint Effort Oh! Canada Final Effort
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
John Greenwood Every Time I Think of You I Smile My Sailboat and Me
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Haunted 1-2-5 ST
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
The Fringe Inside Lookin' Out Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Tex Lecor The Draveur Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
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
British North American Act Baby Jane Days and Nights In the Beginning
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre the canada council juree prson is missing Sonic Horses I
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
No Exit When Will They Learn? ST
Ronney Mitchell Sandy The Five Man Cargo
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Ray Griff Piano Man Canada "My Native Land"
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You

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Compilation

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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

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

1987-05-24_Sacrifice + Ablaze + Faulkwolf_Bathurst Theatre (Toronto)_orange original flyer reduced

ST

ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Sussex

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

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