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
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Barry Ennis School Days Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
Langley Schools Music Project Desperado Wix - Brown Elementary School
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Stephanie Taylor I Don't Know Where I Stand (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Sound Sett Girl You'll be a Woman Soon (Neil Diamond) 1966-1967
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Moonstone In Case ST
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Don Carrington Trio A Song for My Father Makin' It Happen
Mike Harris Wednesday Night Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
David Never Been In Love ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Vic Vogel Close to You Montreal Bandleader
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Hazel McKirdy Mama Didn't Lie End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Spring Shine Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Jeff Moore & Friends Both Sides (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
Other Half Warm Summer's Night ST
Ellison Winter Slutch (Vincent Marandola) ST
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
Mike Harris Bill Cheatem Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Duet: Photomodifications The Optic Earful
Mike Harris Chinese Breakdown Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Tex Lecor The Draveur Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
Emtidi Die Reise Saat
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Colourless ST
Compilation Joe Vassos - Leavin' on a Jet Plane Unselfconsciously Canadian
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Plastic Cloud Civilization Machine ST
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Ultimate Image Rains of Autumn It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Stompin' Tom Connors May, The Millright's Daughter Northland's Own
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Papa Bears Medicine Show Wait and See ST
Vicky and the Coins In Old Shanty Town ST
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
Opposite Le Telephone Help Us Make It
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
King Herbert And the Knights Sissy Strut With Jack Harden
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Happy Dolls Hello Dolly Show Album No. 1
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Tribute to Pretty Maidens Prayer Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
Don Carrington Trio If I Were a Carpenter Makin' It Happen
New Creation New Creation Troubled
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Chiliwack Year Zero
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
New Day Gotta Spread Some Love Around They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Reign Ghost Pudsy's Parable Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Moonstone Relative Hoak ST
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains

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

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