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 Funny Feeling Home Grown Stuff
Nihilist Spasm Band Dog Face Man No Record
Huckle High For Sky Wild Blue Yonder
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
The Fringe Token For My Mind Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Derek Scott Markle Daddy's 100 Proof ST
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) In A Bad Way (Remix) Year Zero
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Glenn Dixon Dreamer Parts 1-3 Reflections
Ray Griff Mama, This One's for You Canada "My Native Land"
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Rascalz Perfect Check Up Really Livin'
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Gargoyle Bill Reach - The Journey Home (Doug Hamilton, guitar; Tim Inkster, bongos) ST
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Ardels Georgia On My Mind Rhythm & Blues
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
Emtidi Tr„ume Saat
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Twice Upon a Never Leavin' On a Jet Plane Twice Upon a Never
Lewis Baloue Things Just Happen That Way L'amour
Plateau Under the Big House My Life b/w Under the Big House
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Jeremy Dormouse I Need a Friend Toad
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Jeremy Dormouse the immortal st. canthor Toad Rejects
Georges Leningrad Main name est Eva Braun Made In Taiwan
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation II Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Cargo Rural Route One Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Let's Make Up Your Mind (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Jeremy Dormouse hollywood heaven Toad Rejects
Sweet Somethings Do You Wanna Dance hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Sedum Shadows Thinking Away Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Langley Schools Music Project Sweet Caroline Wix - Brown Elementary School
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Pavillion Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Bear Paws All for the Love a Girl Kitche-Ogamah
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
Barbara Gryfe Evening of Roses What the World Needs Now
The Organization Change in the Weather ST
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Echoes and a Dream Yesterday's Tomorrow Echoes and a Dream
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Design Variations The Optic Earful
The Organization Superstar ST
Dutch Mason C.C. Rider Half Ain't Been Told
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Joy Tears to be Cried Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Jackie Mittoo Mystic World Stepping Tiger
Plastic Cloud Civilization Machine ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Canadian Beadles Think I'm Gonna Cry Three Faces North
Jeremy Dormouse High Flying Bird Toad
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Sound Sett I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody) 1966-1967
Medium My Lady Lies Forever ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Other Half Summertime ST
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Spring - Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

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

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