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
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Rockadrome Royal American Twentieth Century Blues Royal American 20th Century Blues
Original Bones One More Night ST
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Dolores Claman Happy Whistler Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Bonnie Scots Dundee Weaver Laugh and Cry
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Untitled (Make the Answer "Yes") ST
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
David Fromager Radio Madness If What You Said Was True
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Lucio Agostini Up, Up and a Bull Once Upon a Hundred Years
A Joint Effort My Man Final Effort
Rockadrome Very Strange Royal American 20th Century Blues
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Compilation Judy Singh - Emily Unselfconsciously Canadian
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Barbara Gryfe I'll Never Fall in Love Again What the World Needs Now
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Arcade Fire Old Flame ST
Moonstone Murk ST
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Three ST
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Jim Brown Ross Barrett & Jim Brown - Tree Person The First See Hear
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Hugh Dixon Chopin's Nocturne The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Gordon Lightfoot Movin' Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip
Robert Armes Put Your Cards on the Table Songs for Icarus
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
Fabulous PJ's Proud Mary What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
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)
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Glenn Dixon As Our Days Fly By Reflections
Billy Martin If You Care Strawberry Soul
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Mike Harris Chinese Breakdown Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Black Knight Metal Screams Master of Disaster (EP)
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Do You Agree With Me ST (psych cover)
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
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
Reign Ghost Travels of Blue Paradox ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Style 386 Year Zero
Skeptical Eye Ghet-ti Train The Devil's Playground
David Wiffen You'll Never Make a Dollar That Way Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Canadian Beadles Lonely Blue Boy Three Faces North
Skarecrow Wee Wee Baby Blues...Live at the Explorer
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Sedum Shadows Thinking Away Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Broadway Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Lewis Baloue Bringing You a Rose Romantic Times
Ronney Mitchell Sandy The Five Man Cargo
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Nothing Beautiful ST
Pat's People Our Father Today
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
New Creation No Excuse Troubled
Lewis Baloue It's a New Day Romantic Times
Mike Harris By the Fireside Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
Jeremy Dormouse Believe Me Toad
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Jerry Palmer Got a Love String of Hits
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Jeff Moore & Friends Flying So High (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son

ST

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

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