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
Cargo Alisa Front Side, Back Side
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Hop The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
Souls of Inspyration Dil Kusha (Heart's Happiness) ST
Don Carrington Trio A Song for My Father Makin' It Happen
Jimmy Apostle & the Willows I Love Ya Honey I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love
Shagnasty All My Teachers Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Ardels Lonely Hours Rhythm & Blues
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Stompin' Tom Connors Luke's Guitar The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Dolores Claman Summer Walk Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Stefan Gnys I Wish I Knew English Oaks and Evangeline
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Moonstone Hope You Come See ST
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
Hazel McKirdy Mama Didn't Lie End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Hit The Breaks Year Zero
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Medium Two by Two ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
Lewis Baloue I Thought The World Of You L'amour
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Pepper Tree Message Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Brazda Brothers Gemini ST
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Song The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
Stephanie Taylor Working on a Groove Thing "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Lewis Baloue Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) State Of The Art Year Zero
Gordon Lightfoot Movin' Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Gargoyle Ian Young - 8th and 25th of December 1969 ST
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Gargoyle Ron Puschak - Ballad of Simon Legree ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Two and The Montreal Scene
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
King Herbert And the Knights Sissy Strut With Jack Harden
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
Skeptical Eye The Devil's Playground The Devil's Playground
Canadian Beadles Whole Lot of Shakin Going On Three Faces North
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
New Creation Songs to Sing Troubled
Jim Brown Al Neil Trio - Lombardo The First See Hear
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Bloodstone Toronto Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Plastic Cloud You Don't Care ST
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Ladykiller Still Madly in Love Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Opposite Le Telephone Help Us Make It
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Bent Wind Hate Sussex
David Fromager If What You Said Was True If What You Said Was True
Liska Cry Out Loud Cry Out Loud
John Palmer Free Me Shorelines
Derek Scott Markle Could She Fly ST
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Ellison Strawberry Rain (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST

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