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
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Elevated Platform Home Grown Stuff
Moosetracks Someone on the Line ST
Rascalz Nothin' But a Rascal Really Livin'
Jerry Palmer Got a Love String of Hits
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Blind Owl Lingering Dreams ST
Opposite Land of 1000 Dances Help Us Make It
Liska Cry Out Loud Cry Out Loud
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Garden Bower Lonesome Bill’s Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Jeremy Dormouse blackberry quadrille Toad Rejects
Other Half Swinging Shepherd ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Les 409 They Say They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Dutch Mason Mannish Boy Half Ain't Been Told
Ray Griff That Old Montana Moon Canada "My Native Land"
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone What's Come Over Me? "Coming Out"
Original Bones Friend of the Devil ST
Bloodstone I'm Your Man Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Grimes Rosa Geidi Primes
Vicky and the Coins Five Foot Two ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Reign Ghost Travels of Blue Paradox ST
Art Snider Silly Jilly Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys Howlin' at the Moon Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon
Stephanie Taylor Marion's Theme (Dou Riley) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn u cum into me Sonic Horses I
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Nick Ayoub Quintet Pillsville The Montreal Scene
Other Half In Passing ST
Ray Griff My Rocky Mountain Home Canada "My Native Land"
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Haunted Out of Time ST
Something Evil The Great Winnipeg Riot Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Let it Be The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Sheila Graham Little Green Apples ST
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Sparrows and Daisies ST
Mike Harris Orange Blossom Special Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Canadian Beadles Love Walk Away Three Faces North
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Compilation Tommy Banks Orchestra - Bluesette Unselfconsciously Canadian
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Georges Leningrad Main name est Eva Braun Made In Taiwan
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
A Joint Effort Battle of New Orleans Final Effort
Fabulous PJ's Proud Mary What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
Marty Gillan I Ain't Done Yet (Theme from the T.V. Series "The Manipulators") (Bobby Hales) Try A Little Kindness
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Hugh Dixon What's New The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
David Little Boys ST
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Randy Bishop Lillipads I Sing A Soft Song
Original Bones One More Night ST
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
David Wiffen Courtin' in the Kitchen Live at the Bunkhouse
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
Barbara Gryfe Reunion With the Reserves What the World Needs Now
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Rockadrome Very Strange Royal American 20th Century Blues
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Brazda Brothers 20th Century ST
Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Barbara Gryfe I'll Never Fall in Love Again What the World Needs Now
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Ardels Linda Lou Rhythm & Blues
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Cargo Only My Best Friends Can Tell Front Side, Back Side
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST

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

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

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