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
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Legacy Gimme My Drugs Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
King Beezz She Belongs to Me Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Jerry Palmer Party Pooper String of Hits
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
Chantettes Wayward Wind Remember.....
Spring Shine Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Rockadrome Live and Love Child Royal American 20th Century Blues
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Shades of Blond All Your Love All Your Love
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Lewis Baloue So Be in Love With Me Romantic Times
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Mike Harris Wednesday Night Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Sound Sett She Ain't No Use to Me (Dave Bingham & Roger Mayne, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
King Herbert And the Knights Sing a Simple Song With Jack Harden
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
John Greenwood Mother's Day Love My Sailboat and Me
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
Spring Fever Mama, What About Your Daughter Woodstock
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Walter Boudreau Boul Chaumont Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
Other Half 100 lbs. Clay ST
Mantra Simple Joys (D'arcy Draper) ST
Blind Owl Roads ST
British North American Act Corduroy Coat In the Beginning
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
The Organization Crocadile Rock ST
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Blind Owl Song To the Wind ST
Barbara Gryfe What the World Needs Now What the World Needs Now
Stephanie Taylor I'm Going to Make You Love Me "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Robert Armes Sun Song Songs for Icarus
Rock-a-tunes You're Some Kind of Nice Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone What's Come Over Me? "Coming Out"
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
David Wiffen You'll Never Make a Dollar That Way Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Bonnie Scots Jeanie McCall Laugh and Cry
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Pat's People Take Our Bread Today
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Skarecrow Standin' by the Keyhole Blues...Live at the Explorer
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Listen Here Chip Dip
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Compilation David Foster - Listen to Daddy Unselfconsciously Canadian
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Jack London & the Sparrows Dream on Dreamer ST
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Reign Ghost Black Ode ST
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
John Greenwood Every Time I Think of You I Smile My Sailboat and Me
Emtidi Walkin' In The Park Saat
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau God Bless ST (psych cover)
Gentlemen of Horror Bank ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Here Is Year Zero
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Strike Out Every Name ST (psych cover)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Sweet Somethings Will You Love Me Tomorrow hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Ice Soul Searcher On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
Grimes Grisgris Geidi Primes
Mike Harris Country Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Mike Harris Patty the Coon Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Threads Of Fybre Mama Mama b/w Believe Me
Sedum Shadows Thinking Away Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
Brazda Brothers 20th Century ST
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
David Alvin J. Ashtray ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Glad to Be With You ST
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Sheila Graham Stormy ST

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

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

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