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
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Reprise Royal American 20th Century Blues
Lucio Agostini Voyageur Canoe Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Athenians of Toronto Everybody's Everything San Skoteiniazei
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Hazel McKirdy End of the World End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Threads Of Fybre Mama Mama b/w Believe Me
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Randy Bishop Two Jugglers I Sing A Soft Song
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
Spade Nielsen What's Happening Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Cargo Say Goodbye Front Side, Back Side
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Spring Fever I Just Want to Make Love to You Woodstock
King Herbert And the Knights Sing a Simple Song With Jack Harden
Georges Leningrad chanson italienne Made In Taiwan
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Go Tell it On the Mountain Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Sheila Graham Son of a Preacher Man ST
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Echoes and a Dream Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull) Echoes and a Dream
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Brazda Brothers 20th Century ST
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
David Wiffen Blue Live at the Bunkhouse
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Compilation Judy Singh - My Name is Love Unselfconsciously Canadian
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Chip's Groove Chip Dip
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Stompin' Tom Connors The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
Catseye Love Catseye
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Hi-Fives Mo-Shun Fujikami The Warrior b/w Mo-Shun
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
D.N.A. Because I Love You Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Chantettes Jamaica Farewell Remember.....
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Jackie Mittoo Russian Satelite Stepping Tiger
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
Georges Leningrad Main name est Eva Braun Made In Taiwan
Glenn Dixon As Our Days Fly By Reflections
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Moonstone Cointreau ST
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
A Joint Effort My Man Final Effort
Pepper Tree Message Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Reign Ghost Breadbox Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Glenn Dixon One By One Reflections
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Riverson Empty Sky (Brian Edwards - Rayburn Blake) ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
Don Carrington Trio Dingus Makin' It Happen
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Colourless ST
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Intersystems Lately Number One
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Canadian Beadles Think I'm Gonna Cry Three Faces North
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Derek Scott Markle Could it Be ST
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
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)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
High Park Let Go the Lifeline Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Sound Sett She Ain't No Use to Me (Dave Bingham & Roger Mayne, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Ellison Winter Slutch (Vincent Marandola) ST

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

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

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