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
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Brad Richards Send a Little Love My Way Right Time for Love
Cargo Talk With Us Front Side, Back Side
David House of the Rising Sun ST
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited The Alphatype Beep The Optic Earful
Dutch Mason Tighten Up On It Half Ain't Been Told
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Canadian Beadles Leah Three Faces North
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Souls of Inspyration Pursuit ST
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Walter Boudreau Imagination Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als I'm Happy Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Skarecrow My Coffee's Gettin' Cold Blues...Live at the Explorer
Pat's People Michael Today
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
Grimes Feyd Rautha Dark Heart Geidi Primes
Mantra Tomorrow Without You (D'arcy Draper) ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Ron Martin Special With Mustard Invisible Roots
Gargoyle Ron Puschak - Ballad of Simon Legree ST
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Reign Ghost Breast Stroke Blues Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Ellison Untruth Story (Vincent Marandola) ST
Jackie Mittoo Stepping Tiger Stepping Tiger
Sweet Somethings Pot of Gold hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Lewis Baloue I Thought The World Of You L'amour
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Let it Be The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Chantettes Un Canadian Errant Remember.....
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to You ST
Randy Bishop Lillipads I Sing A Soft Song
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Boys Brigade Shadows Mannequin Demo
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Grimes Avi Geidi Primes
VXN Which One Are You ST
Jarvis Street Revue Heidi-Ho (Let Her Go) Mr. Oil Man
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Plastic Cloud Bridge Under the Sky ST
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - I've Grown Accustomed to His Face Unselfconsciously Canadian
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Haunted Searching For My Baby ST
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Oil Man Mr. Oil Man
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
Billy Martin If You Care Strawberry Soul
Uncertain Land of 1000 Dances Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Tex Lecor Je t'amène avec moi Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Burgundy Lady Blue Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre awake in the red desert Awake in th Red Desert
Gargoyle Bill Reach - The Journey Home (Doug Hamilton, guitar; Tim Inkster, bongos) ST
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Chip's Groove Chip Dip
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
EQ Serious Swellsville
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
No Exit Decisions ST
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
Marty Gillan One Act Play (Howie Vickers (The Collectors)) Try A Little Kindness

FEATURED

Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Gerry Fiander - So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Moonstone - ST

Winnipeg, Manitoba

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

New Creation - Troubled

Coquitlam, British Columbia

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

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

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Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

French Fried Freedom

Teenage Head (8)

Teenage Head (7)

Teenage Head (6)

Teenage Head (5)

Teenage Head (4)

Teenage Head (3)

Teenage Head (2)

Teenage Head (1)

Lorne Ranger

So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

ST

Motherlove

Troubled

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

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