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
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Rated "X" "Coming Out"
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Surfs U Rite Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Gargoyle Ian Young - 8th and 25th of December 1969 ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Pat's People Michael Today
Jeff Moore & Friends Sandy's Song (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
May Run Big Big World Days Into Years
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Spring Fever Watch Yourself Woodstock
Rockadrome Good Dream Royal American 20th Century Blues
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
David Fromager Nicky If What You Said Was True
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Rogues I Can't Hold Out Much Longer I Can't Hold Out Much Longer b/w I'll Make It Up To You
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Mock Duck Sitting on Top of the World Test Record
Stephanie Taylor Feeling Groovy "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Thornton Rogers J. The Blues Out in the West b/w The Blues
May Run Separation Day Days Into Years
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Black Knight Born To Rock Master of Disaster (EP)
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
Canadian Beadles Leah Three Faces North
Marty Gillan Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday Try A Little Kindness
Bonnie Scots The Billy and the Sally Laugh and Cry
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Modern Rock Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Sad Whistle Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
The Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Trooper 3 Dressed Up as a 9 3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)
Nick Ayoub Quintet Ya Habibi The Montreal Scene
Jeff Moore & Friends Call Me When It's Over (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Christmas Just Suppose ST
Walter Boudreau Boul Chaumont Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Billy Martin Prayer Meetin' Strawberry Soul
Jack London & the Sparrows Our Love has Passed ST
Sweet Somethings Pot of Gold hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
British North American Act If You're Looking for Honey In the Beginning
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Boys Brigade Shadows Mannequin Demo
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Lewis Baloue Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
Moonstone David ST
A Joint Effort Horse with No Name Final Effort
The Organization Superstar ST
Rascalz How the Story Goes Really Livin'
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
A Joint Effort My Man Final Effort
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Cargo Rural Route One Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Ray Griff Friends and Neighbors Canada "My Native Land"
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited The Alphatype Beep The Optic Earful
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
Jeremy Dormouse the immortal st. canthor Toad Rejects
R. Taylor Dean My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
R. Taylor Dean Poor Girl My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Skarecrow Ain't Gonna Pop 'Dem Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Three ST
Arcade Fire Headlights Look like Diamonds ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Roads to New York Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Stephanie Taylor I Don't Know Where I Stand (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Moosetracks Lest We Forget ST
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Ronney Mitchell I Feel the Earth Move The Five Man Cargo
Rascalz Perfect Check Up Really Livin'
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Sweet Somethings Going Out of My Head - Can't Take My Eyes Off You hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Style 386 Year Zero
Moosetracks Hangman ST
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Derek Scott Markle Southern Lady ST

FEATURED

Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

Angola, Indiana, 🇺🇸 → Brantford → Oakville → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Other Half - ST

Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Haunted - ST

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jolly Tambourine Man - Wheeeee! Demo

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Christmas - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Caribou - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Laurie Ingalls - Cheap Champagne

Lethbridge, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - Interviews 1985 + First Live Show

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - The Exorcism

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - Turn In Your Grave (demo)

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends - Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

Fort Erie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ablaze - Psychopath

Beloeil, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

May Run - Days Into Years

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Gerry Fiander - So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Moonstone - ST

Winnipeg, Manitoba

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

New Creation - Troubled

Coquitlam, British Columbia

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, 🇨🇦

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

ST

Christmas

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 02

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 01

Christmas - ST

French Fried Freedom

ST

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