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
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Billy Martin Phillie Dog Strawberry Soul
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Hugh Dixon Delilah The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Sweet Somethings Summertime hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
The Fringe Token For My Mind Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
Emtidi Tr„ume Saat
Blind Owl The Old Man ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Perth County Conspiracy So Many Things 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
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
King Herbert And the Knights Sissy Strut With Jack Harden
Catseye Love Catseye
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to You ST
Art Snider Nasty Arthur Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Strike Out Every Name ST (psych cover)
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Opposite Party in My Home Help Us Make It
Canadian Beadles Fool of the Year Three Faces North
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Mystique No Return Black Rider
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
Lewis Baloue Like To See You Again L'amour
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
Stephanie Taylor Working on a Groove Thing "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Nihilist Spasm Band The Byron Bog No Record
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu seem to be apeering to follo sum distant star Sonic Horses I
Alanis Morissette Fate Stay With Me Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Elevated Platform Home Grown Stuff
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
Chantettes Wayward Wind Remember.....
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Huckle Beyonder Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Trevor Dandy Don’t Cry Little Tree Don't Cry Little Tree
Jeff Moore & Friends Sandy's Song (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Trevor Dandy When I Prayed Last Night Don't Cry Little Tree
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
Emtidi Die Reise Saat
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Reign Ghost Southern Hemisphere Blues Legacy ST
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Twice Upon a Never California Dreamin' Twice Upon a Never
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
David Fromager Nicky If What You Said Was True
Original Bones Drop Down Mama ST
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Strawberry Soul

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

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