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
Emtidi Walkin' In The Park Saat
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre mountain lake Sonic Horses I
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Lewis Baloue Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Jack London & the Sparrows It's Been One of Those Days ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Hit The Breaks Year Zero
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Pat's People Turn, Turn, Turn Today
Original Bones Say it With gentle ST
Roger Rodier Let's see some happyness Upon Velveatur
Opposite Land of 1000 Dances Help Us Make It
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Jarvis Street Revue 20 Years Mr. Oil Man
Derek Scott Markle The Circle is Changin' Around ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Flyin' C.P.R. Northland's Own
Roger Rodier The Key Upon Velveatur
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
The Organization Change in the Weather ST
Lewis Baloue Bringing You a Rose Romantic Times
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Canadian Beadles Funny Feeling Three Faces North
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Ronney Mitchell Welcome to the Country The Five Man Cargo
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
British North American Act If You're Looking for Honey In the Beginning
Rascalz Nothin' But a Rascal Really Livin'
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Sweet Somethings Summertime hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Riverson Clear Night (Rayburn Blake) ST
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Jerry Palmer Got a Love String of Hits
Ted Daigle Red Hen Hop Teenage Time
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Marty Gillan Try a Little Kindness Try A Little Kindness
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Reign Ghost Curio Shop ST
Threads Of Fybre Believe Me Mama b/w Believe Me
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Huckle Lady Goldberry Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Canadian Beadles Mojo Workout Three Faces North
Blind Owl Song To the Wind ST
Cargo Black Window Front Side, Back Side
The Organization Back to Back ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Boys Brigade Exodus Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Other Half Evil Ways ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre now, according to paragraph C Awake in th Red Desert
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Brazda Brothers Blooming Flowers ST
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Haggath I Bought Remington Rehearsal 1985-03-11
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Les 409 They Say They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Boys Brigade Shadows Mannequin Demo
Skeptical Eye My Life Is The Devil's Playground
Squires Aurora The Sultan b/w Aurora
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
November Grief The Aftermath To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Boys Brigade Mannequin Mannequin Demo
Bear Paws Season of the Wind Kitche-Ogamah
Jensen Sisters Dancin' in the Autumn Breeze Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
Cargo Child of the Playroom Front Side, Back Side
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Lucio Agostini Reel Once Upon a Hundred Years
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Bloodstone I'm Your Man Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Rockadrome Very Strange Royal American 20th Century Blues
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
Ray Griff Friends and Neighbors Canada "My Native Land"
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Catseye River Catseye
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST

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Moonstone - ST

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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New Creation - Troubled

Coquitlam, British Columbia

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

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

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Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

ST

Motherlove

Troubled

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

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