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
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Athenians of Toronto Opi Aniko San Skoteiniazei
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
Echoes and a Dream Just Trying to Be Echoes and a Dream
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
Stefan Gnys Another Time Another Place English Oaks and Evangeline
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
David Cup of Tea ST
Billy Martin Funky Feelin' Strawberry Soul
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Brazda Brothers Calm River ST
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Liska All My Love Cry Out Loud
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Medium The Mouse ST
Twice Upon a Never Turtle Dove Twice Upon a Never
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Original Bones The Verses of the Fool ST
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th deacon bros in barbados Awake in th Red Desert
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Sweet Somethings Young World hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
David Flight of the Egyptian Army ST
Moonstone Murk ST
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Jackie Mittoo World of Love Stepping Tiger
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre the canada council juree prson is missing Sonic Horses I
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
Gargoyle Larry Smith - I'm Gonna Love You ST
Chessmen Mustang Mustang b/w Meadowlands
Mock Duck Sitting on Top of the World Test Record
Don Carrington Trio Make Me Smile Makin' It Happen
Marty Gillan I Ain't Done Yet (Theme from the T.V. Series "The Manipulators") (Bobby Hales) Try A Little Kindness
Sweet Somethings Do You Wanna Dance hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Skeptical Eye Universal Call - The Message The Devil's Playground
Stompin' Connors Tom Emily, the Maple Leaf Northland's Own
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee Sonic Horses I
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Haunted Out of Time ST
Derek Scott Markle House Song ST
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Sweet Somethings Will You Love Me Tomorrow hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Compilation Buddy Victor - The More I See You Unselfconsciously Canadian
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Feel The Warm Give In b/w Feel The Warm
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Medium New Thing ST
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
Jerry Palmer Love's Come to Me String of Hits
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Swords of Gold ST
Story Structure I Told You (Instrumental Mix) I Told You
David Never Been In Love ST
Vicky and the Coins In Old Shanty Town ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Café Symphony ST
Brégent Je t'Aime Poussière Des Regrets
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Sweet Somethings Summertime hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Stompin' Connors Tom The Peterborough Postman Northland's Own
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Hay Gee "Coming Out"
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Nothing Beautiful ST
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Pat's People Take Our Bread Today
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Moosetracks Lest We Forget ST
Pat's People Changes Today

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

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