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
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Ronney Mitchell I've Got to be Me The Five Man Cargo
Cargo Child of the Playroom Front Side, Back Side
Emtidi Tr„ume Saat
Huckle The Sunshine Shuffle Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet #2 Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Canadian Beadles Lonely Blue Boy Three Faces North
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
R. Taylor Dean My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Cargo Alisa Front Side, Back Side
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys Howlin' at the Moon Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
EQ Help a Bruva Out Swellsville
Langley Schools Music Project In My Room Wix - Brown Elementary School
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Emtidi Die Reise Saat
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Walter Boudreau Imagination Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Lewis Baloue Summer's Moon L'amour
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Jeremy Dormouse Baby Blue Toad
Haunted Montreal Blues ST
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Legacy Come With Me Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Gargoyle Ron Puschak - Ballad of Simon Legree ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Love Won't let Me Wait "Coming Out"
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Arcade Fire My Heart is an Apple ST
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
Jackie Mittoo Harder than the Rest Stepping Tiger
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
Brazda Brothers Gemini ST
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Opposite Baby Why Help Us Make It
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Ardels Stereo Popeye Rhythm & Blues
Bloodstone I'm Your Man Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Hugh Dixon Blues Stay Away From Me The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Liska Tear Away My Heart Cry Out Loud
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Les Bel Kanto A Kind of Break Down A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
Fred Latremouille Tossin' and Turnin' Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Fred Latremouille Mashed Potato Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Jack London & the Sparrows I'll be the Boy ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Mystique Wake Up Screamin' Black Rider
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Funny Feeling Home Grown Stuff
Stompin' Tom Connors The Birth of the New Dragon Mine The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
The Organization Back to Back ST
Plastic Cloud Shadows of Your Mind ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
Riverson Between the Lines (Brian Edwards) ST
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Medium The Mouse ST
Mike Harris Wednesday Night Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Echoes and a Dream Yesterday's Tomorrow Echoes and a Dream
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
David Fromager Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
EQ Play The Back Swellsville
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert

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