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
Jack London & the Sparrows Glad to Be With You ST
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Dutch Mason Polk Salad Annie Half Ain't Been Told
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Walter Boudreau Imagination Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Ronney Mitchell It's Your Thing The Five Man Cargo
Jeremy Dormouse Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy Toad
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she, still and curling Awake in th Red Desert
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
Skarecrow Ain't Gonna Pop 'Dem Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Trevor Dandy Don’t Cry Little Tree Don't Cry Little Tree
Legacy Come With Me Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Peterborough Postman Northland's Own
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys Howlin' at the Moon Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Let it Be The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Chantettes Bamboo Remember.....
Liska Tear Away My Heart Cry Out Loud
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Northland's Own
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Colourless ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Skarecrow Hey Mr. Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Skarecrow Sea-Suckin' Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Surfs U Rite Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Vic Vogel Close to You Montreal Bandleader
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Buck Shots ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra For Your Eyes Only James Bond 007
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Ray Griff Sweet Bird of Youth Canada "My Native Land"
No Exit Decisions ST
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation II Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
The Organization 60 Years Ago ST
Haunted Out of Time ST
John Palmer Cloud Shorelines
Liska Cry Out Loud Cry Out Loud
Reign Ghost Solar Nice Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Moosetracks Lest We Forget ST
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Hugh Dixon Guitar Soco Guitar Solo (acetate)
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys Things That Might Have Been Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal East The Montreal Scene
Brégent Je t'Aime Poussière Des Regrets
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
Reign Ghost Breadbox Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
Ray Griff Jimmy, Luke and Me Canada "My Native Land"
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Stefan Gnys Machine English Oaks and Evangeline
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Stefan Gnys Soliloguy English Oaks and Evangeline
Jensen Sisters Dancin' in the Autumn Breeze Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Mantra Beatrices (D'arcy Draper) ST
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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

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