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
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Langley Schools Music Project Riannon Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Souls of Inspyration Sun Shines in the Winter ST
Brazda Brothers Civilization ST
Fabulous PJ's What Do You Want Me to Do? What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
Dutch Mason Dust My Broom Half Ain't Been Told
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
Sedum Shadows Thinking Away Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Emtidi Love Time Rain Saat
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Piano Piano ST (psych cover)
Moosetracks This Place is No Place to be Happy ST
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
EQ Freestyle Swellsville
Spring Fever Spring Fever Woodstock
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra From Russia With Love James Bond 007
Arcade Fire My Heart is an Apple ST
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Give In Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Ellison Freedom (Vincent Marandola) ST
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
Brazda Brothers Walking in the Sun ST
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
David Flight of the Egyptian Army ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Pavillion Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) You Know The Science Year Zero
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Athenians of Toronto Everybody's Everything San Skoteiniazei
Robert Armes Imagine a World With No Music Songs for Icarus
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Design Variations The Optic Earful
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
High Park Sewer Side Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Cyrus Eden Wasteland First Offense (EP)
EQ Step Up Swellsville
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Jack London & the Sparrows Leavin' Blues (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Hugh Dixon Saints Go Marching Inn The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
David Never Been In Love ST
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Lewis Baloue We Danced All Night Romantic Times
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Nucleus Johnny Peace Johnny Peace b/w Ernie's Gone (picture sleeve)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia O Come ST
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Athenians of Toronto Now More Than Ever San Skoteiniazei
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Stompin' Tom Connors Carolyne Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Jeremy Dormouse freight train Toad Rejects
EQ Come Alive (King Otto Remix) Swellsville
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Compilation Judy Singh - My Name is Love Unselfconsciously Canadian
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Hazel McKirdy End of the World End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Other Half Summertime ST
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Hugh Dixon Guitar Soco Guitar Solo (acetate)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre is yr car 2 soft 4 th road Awake in th Red Desert
Echoes and a Dream Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull) Echoes and a Dream
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) The Bassment Show Year Zero
Stompin' Tom Connors The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own

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