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
Hazel McKirdy Mama Didn't Lie End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
The Organization Happiness ST
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Reign Ghost Curio Shop ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra From Russia With Love James Bond 007
Langley Schools Music Project God Only Knows Wix - Brown Elementary School
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Season of the Witch ST
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Riverson Take Me (Rayburn Blake) ST
Ardels Theme Rhythm & Blues
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she, still and curling Awake in th Red Desert
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
David Fromager My Woman Left Me If What You Said Was True
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Christmas Waltz Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal West The Montreal Scene
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
Pat's People Richman's Spiritual Today
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Don Carrington Trio MacArthur Park Makin' It Happen
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Trevor Dandy Lord I Come to Thee Don't Cry Little Tree
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Jeff Moore & Friends Flying So High (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Arcade Fire My Heart is an Apple ST
Ray Griff Jacket River Canada "My Native Land"
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Alanis Morissette Fate Stay With Me Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Pepper Tree Message Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Stompin' Tom Connors May, The Millright's Daughter Northland's Own
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Cargo Once a Proud Man Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Brazda Brothers Calm River ST
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
New Reality Lost Never Found Demo Tape
Stonemen In the Evening In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
New Creation Dig! (The Origin of Man) Troubled
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Little Toy Trains Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Nomads Four Be On Your Way Be On Your Way b/w Come On Home
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Original Bones Drop Down Mama ST
VXN Could it Be ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
Huckle Hello Sunshine Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Moosetracks Hangman ST
Skeptical Eye My Life Is The Devil's Playground
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
David Wiffen More Often Than Not Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Stompin' Tom Connors Algoma Central No. 69 Northland's Own
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Dutch Mason C.C. Rider Half Ain't Been Told
Ted Daigle Legend of Chaleur Bay Teenage Time
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Sweet Somethings Frosty Friday hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
Trevor Dandy When I Prayed Last Night Don't Cry Little Tree
Glenn Dixon Silence (The Cold Hours Come) Reflections
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Arcade Fire Old Flame ST
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Theme from Swat "Coming Out"
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song

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