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
Echoes and a Dream Life is a Love Song Echoes and a Dream
Mike Harris Norwegian Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) State Of The Art Year Zero
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Souls of Inspyration Eyes of Nature ST
Original Bones Drop Down Mama ST
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
Stompin' Connors Tom Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Lewis Baloue So Be in Love With Me Romantic Times
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Swords of Gold ST
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Ardels Lonely Hours Rhythm & Blues
Derek Scott Markle Could it Be ST
John Greenwood There is Peace My Sailboat and Me
Georges Leningrad chanson italienne Made In Taiwan
Randy Bishop Childhood Song to Christopher Robin I Sing A Soft Song
Dolores Claman Happy Whistler Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Perth County Conspiracy Hurdy-Gurdy Man ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part One ST
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Thornton Rogers J. The Blues Out in the West b/w The Blues
Stompin' Connors Tom The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Christmas Your Humble Suitor ST
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Phillip Werren Dance Music II Electronic Music (1968-1971)
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Vicky and the Coins When the Saints Go Marching In ST
Medium Two by Two ST
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
Intersystems Lately Number One
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Sweet Somethings Do You Wanna Dance hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Moonstone Relative Hoak ST
Diodes The Curse - War Raw / War (split with The Curse)
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Braineaters Screw You Planet X
King Beezz She Belongs to Me 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)
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Compilation Stampeders - You Never Know Until You Try International Master Discovery Records
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
Les Bel Kanto A Kind of Break Down A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
David House of the Rising Sun ST
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Bonnie Scots Lonely Prison Cell Laugh and Cry
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
David Wiffen Since I Fell For You Live at the Bunkhouse
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Langley Schools Music Project The Long and Winding Road Wix - Brown Elementary School
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Stompin' Connors Tom The Birth of the New Dragon Mine The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
No Exit No Exit ST
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Glenn Dixon Dreamer Parts 1-3 Reflections
Skarecrow Wine Wine Wine Blues...Live at the Explorer
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
Mike Harris By the Fireside Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Lewis Baloue Like To See You Again L'amour
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Brégent Le chien Poussière Des Regrets

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

ST

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

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