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
Reign Ghost Breast Stroke Blues Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Ardels Night Time is the Right Time Rhythm & Blues
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Reign Ghost Travels of Blue Paradox ST
Braineaters London Town Planet X
Billy Martin It's Your Life Strawberry Soul
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST
Jeremy Dormouse the immortal st. canthor Toad Rejects
Jim Brown Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes The First See Hear
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Reflections ST
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Dolores Claman Summer Walk Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Glenn Dixon Silence (The Cold Hours Come) Reflections
Mystique Black Rider Black Rider
Mike Harris Wednesday Night Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Ronney Mitchell I've Got to be Me The Five Man Cargo
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Glass for Wine Home Grown Stuff
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Funny Feeling Home Grown Stuff
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Ray Griff My Rocky Mountain Home Canada "My Native Land"
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Ray Griff That Old Montana Moon Canada "My Native Land"
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
EQ Funky Oasis Swellsville
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Lord Ryur Pact With The Sinner Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Stompin' Tom Connors Carolyne Northland's Own
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heart flash us Sonic Horses I
Stephanie Taylor Marion's Theme (Dou Riley) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers You Got the Green Light The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
David Lovely Lady ST
Vicky and the Coins In Old Shanty Town ST
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Bear Paws Season of the Wind Kitche-Ogamah
Medium Stars ST
Brégent Le chien Poussière Des Regrets
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
Lewis Baloue Bringing You a Rose Romantic Times
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Original Bones Friend of the Devil ST
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Pat's People Michael Today
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Chiliwack Year Zero
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
Trooper 3 Dressed Up as a 9 3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)
Mystique Memories Black Rider
Jackie Mittoo Mystic World Stepping Tiger
Lewis Baloue As the Boats Go By Romantic Times
A Joint Effort Hitchhikers Dream Final Effort
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
November Grief Infanticide To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Sunrise Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Curio Shop ST

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

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

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