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
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Chantettes Jamaica Farewell Remember.....
Ray Griff D-Dogies Canada "My Native Land"
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
Jolly Tambourine Man Lisa Burger Wheeeee! Demo
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Phil Phil
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
Jarvis Street Revue 300 South Mr. Oil Man
Skeptical Eye Sad Jazz The Devil's Playground
The Other Half Swinging Shepherd ST
Brazda Brothers Walking in the Sun ST
Hugh Dixon Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Fred Latremouille Mashed Potato Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Langley Schools Music Project Sweet Caroline Wix - Brown Elementary School
Blind Owl Roads ST
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Pat's People Our Father Today
Bear Paws All for the Love a Girl Kitche-Ogamah
Mock Duck Introduction - Ground Hog Test Record
Medium The Mouse ST
Lucio Agostini Reel Once Upon a Hundred Years
George Hauschild & Carole Penticton Penticton b/w But For Love
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Rascalz Nothin' But a Rascal Really Livin'
Platinum Blonde Hey Hey You Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Marty Gillan Home from the Forest Try A Little Kindness
Moonstone Said Gently ST
Emtidi Die Reise Saat
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Ellison Freedom (Vincent Marandola) ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Let's Make Up Your Mind (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
George Cook Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley
Arcade Fire My Heart is an Apple ST
Haggath Evil Transitions Rehearsal 1985-09
The Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
David Wiffen You'll Never Make a Dollar That Way Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Sacrifice 1986-02_Terry Sadler interviews Sacrifice_Interviews Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Moon Raker James Bond 007
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
Sacrifice 1985-07-30_Sacrifice_Urbinati, Rico_CKLN FM Arg Rock interview Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
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
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Northwind ST
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Echoes and a Dream Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull) Echoes and a Dream
No Exit When Will They Learn? ST
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
Rascalz Quest for Rhyme Really Livin'
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Langley Schools Music Project Saturday Night Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Cargo Only My Best Friends Can Tell Front Side, Back Side
Jeremy Dormouse birds of joy Toad Rejects
Emtidi Love Time Rain Saat
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Ray Griff Jacket River Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project You're so Good to Me Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
David Wiffen Four in the Mornin' Live at the Bunkhouse
New Creation New Creation Troubled
The Haunted Twist ST
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
High Park Let Go the Lifeline Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
EQ Step Up Swellsville
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

ST

Christmas

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 02

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 01

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