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
The Organization Don't Let the Green Grass Fool Ya ST
Rockadrome Live and Love Child Royal American 20th Century Blues
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Langley Schools Music Project Wild Fire Wix - Brown Elementary School
David Fromager Catch Him If You Can If What You Said Was True
Don Carrington Trio If I Were a Carpenter Makin' It Happen
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Mantra Beatrices (D'arcy Draper) ST
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
David Hey Jude ST
Trevor Dandy Lord I Come to Thee Don't Cry Little Tree
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Jackie Mittoo Harder than the Rest Stepping Tiger
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)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Pavillion Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
Pat's People Changes Today
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Chantettes Come and Go With Me Remember.....
Echoes and a Dream Life is a Love Song Echoes and a Dream
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Jim Brown Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes The First See Hear
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Chantettes Jamaica Farewell Remember.....
Souls of Inspyration Eyes of Nature ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Liska Weekday Mother Cry Out Loud
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines
Jarvis Street Revue Heidi-Ho (Let Her Go) Mr. Oil Man
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Haunted Out of Time ST
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
George Cook Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
New Creation Songs to Sing Troubled
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Mike Harris By the Fireside Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
EQ Serious Swellsville
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
Sheila Graham Aquarius ST
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Jack London & the Sparrows Sparrows and Daisies ST
Opposite Baby Why Help Us Make It
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Brégent Dieu est nègre Poussière Des Regrets
Plastic Cloud You Don't Care ST
Hugh Dixon Saints Go Marching Inn The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Grimes Zoal, Face Dancer Geidi Primes
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Oil in the Ground "Coming Out"
Skeptical Eye Sad Jazz The Devil's Playground
November Grief Psychotopsy To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Compilation Stampeders - You Never Know Until You Try International Master Discovery Records
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
Ray Griff Jacket River Canada "My Native Land"
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
Biggy Twiggy Band Mama Won't Let You Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Lewis Baloue Like To See You Again L'amour
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Blues for McHugh The Montreal Scene
Lord Ryur Pact With The Sinner Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
The Fringe Flower Generation Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Oil Man Mr. Oil Man
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Memory Lane The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects

ST

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

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