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
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
A Joint Effort Champagne Junction Final Effort
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Three ST
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
Twice Upon a Never Last Round Twice Upon a Never
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
New Creation Sodom and Gomorrah Troubled
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Nihilist Spasm Band The Byron Bog No Record
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle I'll Take Romance ST
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Dutch Mason Baby Please Don't Go Half Ain't Been Told
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Nick Ayoub Quintet Two and The Montreal Scene
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Skeptical Eye Mama Does'n Understand The Devil's Playground
Twice Upon a Never Come the Day Twice Upon a Never
Randy Bishop Childhood Song to Christopher Robin I Sing A Soft Song
Legacy Come With Me Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Hugh Dixon Silly Bo Dilly (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Shagnasty All My Teachers Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) State Of The Art Year Zero
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Haggath Evil Transitions Rehearsal 1985-09
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
Jerry Palmer Love's Come to Me String of Hits
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Untitled (Make the Answer "Yes") ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Tribute to Pretty Maidens Prayer Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
John Palmer Free Me Shorelines
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra James Bond Theme James Bond 007
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
Mock Duck Hurt On Me Test Record
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
The Organization Who Ever Finds This ST
Jerry Palmer Travelin' Shoes String of Hits
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Count Baculis ST
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Stefan Gnys Evangeline English Oaks and Evangeline
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Spring Fever Mama, What About Your Daughter Woodstock
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Original Bones Lady Anne ST
Compilation Shades of Blond - All Your Love International Master Discovery Records
Mock Duck Home Made Jam Test Record
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Lewis Baloue We Danced All Night Romantic Times
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Threads Of Fybre Believe Me Mama b/w Believe Me
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Speak Of The Devil Year Zero
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
Mike Harris Chinese Breakdown Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Ray Griff Garrington Canada "My Native Land"
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On to Rouyn Northland's Own
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Don Carrington Trio Dingus Makin' It Happen
Compilation David Foster - Listen to Daddy Unselfconsciously Canadian
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Stompin' Tom Connors Emily, the Maple Leaf Northland's Own
Ray Griff Canada Canada "My Native Land"
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits

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, 🇨🇦

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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