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
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) In A Bad Way (Remix) Year Zero
Glenn Dixon One By One Reflections
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Gentlemen of Horror Bank ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
The Amen Peter Zeus Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Brazda Brothers Calm River ST
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Surfs U Rite Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Gargoyle Bill Reach - The Journey Home (Doug Hamilton, guitar; Tim Inkster, bongos) ST
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Heat Brighouse Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Hazel McKirdy End of the World End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Robert Armes Someday Songs for Icarus
Billy Martin If You Care Strawberry Soul
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Jarvis Street Revue 300 South Mr. Oil Man
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys Things That Might Have Been Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Swords of Gold ST
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Fred Latremouille Mashed Potato Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Wanda Unda Landa Chip Dip
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Billy Martin Prayer Meetin' Strawberry Soul
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Original Bones One More Night ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Ellison Untruth Story (Vincent Marandola) ST
Robert Armes Sun Song Songs for Icarus
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Other Half Travellin Band ST
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Christmas Sorry I Bore You Victoria ST
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
Original Bones The Verses of the Fool ST
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Ron Martin Special With Mustard Invisible Roots
Ice Soul Searcher On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Sheila Graham Son of a Preacher Man ST
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Canadian Beadles Fool of the Year Three Faces North
Sweet Somethings Hold On, I'm Comin' hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Don Carrington Trio MacArthur Park Makin' It Happen
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Café Symphony ST
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Ardels Heads Up Rhythm & Blues
Stefan Gnys Machine English Oaks and Evangeline
Cargo Only My Best Friends Can Tell Front Side, Back Side
Ellison Satanic (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Ted Daigle When You Said You All Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Spade Nielsen What's Happening Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Jackie Mittoo Mystic World Stepping Tiger
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Derek Scott Markle Could She Fly ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck No one in Particular Home Grown Stuff
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Song The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Randy Bishop I Sing a Soft Song I Sing A Soft Song
Souls of Inspyration Dil Kusha (Heart's Happiness) ST
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
Emtidi Die Reise Saat

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

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

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