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
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Art Snider Silly Jilly Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) State Of The Art Year Zero
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
EQ Serious Swellsville
Skarecrow Ballad of Glen & Trevor Blues...Live at the Explorer
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Christmas Sorry I Bore You Victoria ST
No Exit Decisions ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Rockadrome Royal American Twentieth Century Blues Royal American 20th Century Blues
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Love Won't let Me Wait "Coming Out"
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Ted Daigle Ruby Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Brazda Brothers 20th Century ST
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Skarecrow Wine Wine Wine Blues...Live at the Explorer
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Billy Martin Egg Roll Strawberry Soul
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Sound Sett Girl You'll be a Woman Soon (Neil Diamond) 1966-1967
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Glass for Wine Home Grown Stuff
Clymaxe R. U. Cumming? R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Grimes Venus In Fleurs Geidi Primes
Perth County Conspiracy So Many Things ST
Joy Tears to be Cried Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Sound Sett She Ain't No Use to Me (Dave Bingham & Roger Mayne, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Trevor Dandy Don’t Cry Little Tree Don't Cry Little Tree
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Cargo Alisa Front Side, Back Side
Sound Sett I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody) 1966-1967
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Brazda Brothers Gemini ST
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als I'm Happy Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
David Never Been In Love ST
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Dutch Mason Gonna Move to the Country Half Ain't Been Told
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Jackie Mittoo Mystic World Stepping Tiger
Skeptical Eye Sad Jazz The Devil's Playground
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Rainbow ST
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
The Organization Change in the Weather ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Stompin' Tom Connors Algoma Central No. 69 Northland's Own
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sweet Somethings Going Out of My Head - Can't Take My Eyes Off You hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Robert Armes Sun Song Songs for Icarus
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Ya Ya Chip Dip
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre is yr car 2 soft 4 th road Awake in th Red Desert
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Stompin' Tom Connors The Flyin' C.P.R. Northland's Own
Ice Soul Searcher On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jim Brown Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes The First See Hear
Bent Wind Hate Sussex
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Original Bones Sit Down ST
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Here Is Year Zero
Spade Nielsen What's Happening Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Echoes and a Dream Thank You (Led Zeppelin) Echoes and a Dream
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Lewis Baloue Bringing You a Rose Romantic Times
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Ellison Unchanged World (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand, Robert Cager, Christian Tremblay) ST
Ronney Mitchell I Feel the Earth Move The Five Man Cargo
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero

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