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
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Three ST
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Christmas Sorry I Bore You Victoria ST
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
A Joint Effort Oh! Canada Final Effort
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Ron Martin Special With Mustard Invisible Roots
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Compilation Shades of Blond - All Your Love International Master Discovery Records
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Catseye Images Catseye
Moosetracks This Place is No Place to be Happy ST
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Catseye Hedgegate Catseye
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Medium New Thing ST
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
No Exit Decisions ST
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Brazda Brothers Blooming Flowers ST
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Threads Of Fybre Believe Me Mama b/w Believe Me
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers What Does it Take The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Lewis Baloue I Thought The World Of You L'amour
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre awake in the red desert Awake in th Red Desert
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre o a b a Awake in th Red Desert
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
Stephanie Taylor Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Listen Here Chip Dip
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Mystique No Return Black Rider
David Hey Jude ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Chantettes Wayward Wind Remember.....
Stompin' Connors Tom Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Sweet Somethings Summertime hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Arcade Fire My Heart is an Apple ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia O Come ST
EQ Freestyle Swellsville
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Cargo Say Goodbye Front Side, Back Side
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Rock-a-tunes You're Some Kind of Nice Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
No Exit No Exit ST
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited The Alphatype Beep The Optic Earful
Shades of Blond All Your Love All Your Love
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden
Derek Scott Markle Could it Be ST
Calgary Range Riders Curly Hair Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Ellison Satanic (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
New Creation Sodom and Gomorrah Troubled
Other Half Thoughts ST
Sound Sett Just a Little (Ron Elliott & Bob Durand, The Breau Brummels) 1966-1967
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Brad Richards Send a Little Love My Way Right Time for Love
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Sunshine "Coming Out"
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

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