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
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Sunrise Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
Ardels Theme Rhythm & Blues
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys Things That Might Have Been Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Ronney Mitchell Fools Rush in The Five Man Cargo
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
Skarecrow Can't Judge a Book Blues...Live at the Explorer
A Joint Effort Hitchhikers Dream Final Effort
November Grief The Aftermath To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Pat's People Richman's Spiritual Today
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Jarvis Street Revue 300 South Mr. Oil Man
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Stephanie Taylor Working on a Groove Thing "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Garden Bower Gord’s Dream Etc. w/ Trains
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels Little Rosa I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre o a b a Awake in th Red Desert
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Let's Make Up Your Mind (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
VXN Not Only in Love ST
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
Art Snider Lara's Theme Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Haunted Untie Me ST
Gentlemen of Horror Bank ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Rascalz How the Story Goes Really Livin'
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Joy Ready to Move Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Hop The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Northland's Own
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On to Rouyn Northland's Own
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Pat's People Take Our Bread Today
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Sweet Summer Day ST
Riverson Hermit Glen (Rayburn Blake) ST
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Rockadrome Thirteen Miles Down Royal American 20th Century Blues
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Good Morning Blues ST
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Dr. No James Bond 007
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Untitled (Make the Answer "Yes") ST
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Barbara Gryfe I'll Never Fall in Love Again What the World Needs Now
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Business Man Mr. Oil Man
The Organization Pretty City Lady ST
Moonstone In Case ST
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Robert Armes Someday Songs for Icarus
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Haunted Out of Time ST
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Teaser Royal American 20th Century Blues
November Grief Infanticide To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Derek Scott Markle The Circle is Changin' Around ST
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Liska Angela Cry Out Loud
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
David Fromager Radio Madness If What You Said Was True
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Barry Ennis Mountain of Ice Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Stefan Gnys The Pleasant Land of Counterpane English Oaks and Evangeline
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Jensen Sisters Do What Makes You Happy Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair

Strawberry Soul

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

ST

Compilation

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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

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