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
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Cargo Talk With Us Front Side, Back Side
R. Taylor Dean Poor Girl My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Catseye Am I the One Catseye
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Hop The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Spring Fever Spring Fever Woodstock
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Skarecrow Ain't Gonna Pop 'Dem Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Catseye Images Catseye
David Take My Hand ST
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Mike Harris Orange Blossom Special Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Original Bones Drop Down Mama ST
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Ronney Mitchell Welcome to the Country The Five Man Cargo
Bonnie Scots The Drunken Man Laugh and Cry
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Athenians of Toronto San Skoteiniazei San Skoteiniazei
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Derek Scott Markle Daddy's 100 Proof ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra For Your Eyes Only James Bond 007
Moosetracks This Place is No Place to be Happy ST
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
VXN Putting Love Aside ST
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Reign Ghost Travels of Blue Paradox ST
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Spring It's So Hard Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST
Stephanie Taylor Windmills of Your Mind "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Christmas Your Humble Suitor ST
Plateau Under the Big House My Life b/w Under the Big House
Ardels Georgia On My Mind Rhythm & Blues
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Opposite Help Us Make it Through the Night Help Us Make It
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck No one in Particular Home Grown Stuff
The Fringe Token For My Mind Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Squires The Sultan The Sultan b/w Aurora
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
Riverson Between the Lines (Brian Edwards) ST
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
Nick Ayoub Quintet Ya Habibi The Montreal Scene
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Glenn Dixon Silence (The Cold Hours Come) Reflections
Jerry Palmer Travelin' Shoes String of Hits
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
New Reality Moments of Silence Demo Tape
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Pat's People Dona Dona Today
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Rockadrome Live and Love Child Royal American 20th Century Blues
Lucio Agostini Dundurn Castle Once Upon a Hundred Years
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Don Carrington Trio Dingus Makin' It Happen
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell

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