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
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
Other Half 100 lbs. Clay ST
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
Moonstone In Case ST
Ellison Unchanged World (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand, Robert Cager, Christian Tremblay) ST
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
Joni Mitchell You Dream Flat Tires Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
The Stonefield Morning Hours Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #1 ST
Cargo Alisa Front Side, Back Side
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Sweet Somethings He's My Soul Baby hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Lost Soul Dept. Wild-Weekend Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Bonnie Scots Lonely Prison Cell Laugh and Cry
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
Stompin' Tom Connors The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own
Twice Upon a Never Butterfly of Love Twice Upon a Never
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Tex Lecor Je t'amène avec moi Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
John Greenwood Mother's Day Love My Sailboat and Me
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Dutch Mason Mannish Boy Half Ain't Been Told
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra For Your Eyes Only James Bond 007
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Jeremy Dormouse Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy Toad
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Dolores Claman Summer Walk Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Stefan Gnys English Oaks English Oaks and Evangeline
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden
Perth County Conspiracy So Many Things ST
Skeptical Eye My Life Is The Devil's Playground
Rascalz How the Story Goes Really Livin'
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Dolores Claman Happy Whistler Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Jerry Palmer Walking Home String of Hits
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
Riverson Hermit Glen (Rayburn Blake) ST
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Reprise Royal American 20th Century Blues
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Grimes Gambang Geidi Primes
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Spring It's So Hard Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Moonstone Murk ST
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee (2) Sonic Horses I
Sound Sett You're a Better Man Than I (Mike & Brian Hugg) 1966-1967
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Haggath Evil Transitions Rehearsal 1985-09
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Cargo Once a Proud Man Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Ted Daigle Red Hen Hop Teenage Time
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Spring Fever Mama, What About Your Daughter Woodstock
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Two ST
No Exit Decisions ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Dream on Dreamer ST
Cyrus Eden Rock You To The Limit First Offense (EP)

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, 🇨🇦

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Compilation - International Master Discovery Records

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Shades of Blond - All Your Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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