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
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Original Bones The Verses of the Fool ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Pat's People Turn, Turn, Turn Today
Bonnie Scots Jeanie McCall Laugh and Cry
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Story Structure I Told You (Extended Mix) I Told You
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
King Herbert And the Knights Sing a Simple Song With Jack Harden
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Triaxe Chain of Superstition Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
David Wiffen Four Strong Winds Live at the Bunkhouse
Canadian Beadles Funny Feeling Three Faces North
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
Don Carrington Trio MacArthur Park Makin' It Happen
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Garden Bower Lonesome Bill’s Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Cargo Child of the Playroom Front Side, Back Side
Jeff Moore & Friends Flying So High (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
Ronney Mitchell Time Alone Will Tell The Five Man Cargo
Tyrant Hooked On You Hooked On You b/w Carol
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Pat's People Changes Today
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair (Jazz Version) ST
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
Plateau Under the Big House My Life b/w Under the Big House
Medium Two by Two ST
New Creation Where Are You Going? Troubled
Georges Leningrad chanson italienne Made In Taiwan
Mantra Simple Joys (D'arcy Draper) ST
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Athenians of Toronto Opi Aniko San Skoteiniazei
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
A Joint Effort Champagne Junction Final Effort
Mike Harris Norwegian Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Randy Bishop I Sing a Soft Song I Sing A Soft Song
Reign Ghost Reaching ST
Derek Scott Markle Southern Lady ST
Ice Soul Searcher On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Catseye It's a Long Way Catseye
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Glass for Wine Home Grown Stuff
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) You Know The Science Year Zero
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Dr. No James Bond 007
Ronney Mitchell Fools Rush in The Five Man Cargo
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Other Half Evil Ways ST
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
A Joint Effort Horse with No Name Final Effort
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Ya Ya Chip Dip
Vicky and the Coins When the Saints Go Marching In ST
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Stephanie Taylor Marion's Theme (Dou Riley) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Catseye Am I the One Catseye
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Burgundy Ex-Lovin' Man Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Jarvis Street Revue Heidi-Ho (Let Her Go) Mr. Oil Man
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
Ray Griff That Old Montana Moon Canada "My Native Land"
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST
King Herbert And the Knights Sissy Strut With Jack Harden
Phillip Werren Dance Music II Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Sound Sett Just in Case You're Wonderin (David Byngham & Glynn Bell, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
No Exit Parliament Swindle ST

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Spring - Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

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

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