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
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Ablaze Psycho Path Psychopath
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Liska Angela Cry Out Loud
Roger Rodier You don't know what it's like Upon Velveatur
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal East The Montreal Scene
Joni Mitchell Be Cool Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu sing Awake in th Red Desert
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
Moonstone Murk ST
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre now, according to paragraph C Awake in th Red Desert
Christmas Oasis ST
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Until Nine ST (psych cover)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Echoes and a Dream Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull) Echoes and a Dream
Les Bel Kanto A Kind of Break Down A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)
British North American Act If You're Looking for Honey In the Beginning
Stefan Gnys Evangeline English Oaks and Evangeline
Ronney Mitchell Fools Rush in The Five Man Cargo
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
David Fromager If What You Said Was True If What You Said Was True
Liska Dagger of the Soul Cry Out Loud
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
Medium The Mouse ST
Jeff Moore & Friends Sandy's Song (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Stompin' Tom Connors The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Sheila Graham Son of a Preacher Man ST
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Haunted Untie Me ST
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Mantra Stay (D'arcy Draper) ST
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
High Park Sewer Side Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Lucio Agostini Skiing in Québec Once Upon a Hundred Years
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Pat's People Michael Today
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST
Jeremy Dormouse High Flying Bird Toad
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Skarecrow Bring It On Home to Me Blues...Live at the Explorer
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear
Lewis Baloue I Thought The World Of You L'amour
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
The Organization Happiness ST
Lewis Baloue Where Did My Love Go Away Romantic Times
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
David Fromager Radio Madness If What You Said Was True
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Canadian Beadles I'm Coming Home Three Faces North
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Christmas Your Humble Suitor ST
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
Langley Schools Music Project You're so Good to Me Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ardels Georgia On My Mind Rhythm & Blues
Opposite We Say Yeah Help Us Make It
A Joint Effort Oh! Canada Final Effort
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Buck Shots ST
VXN Illusion of the Heart ST
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Pat's People Dona Dona Today
David Wiffen Don't Think Twice Live at the Bunkhouse

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

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

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