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
Peter Mathieson Yonge Street Yonge Street b/w heaven Help the Fool
Reign Ghost Travels of Blue Paradox ST
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Northland's Own
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow Ain't Gonna Pop 'Dem Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia The Undertaker's Ball ST
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Count Baculis ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra For Your Eyes Only James Bond 007
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Athenians of Toronto Now More Than Ever San Skoteiniazei
Randy Bishop Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts: Act 1) In Honour of a Dissonant Triad; Act 1) A Tale Told By An Idiot; Act 3) Who Was That Unmasked Man?; Act 4) Morning I Sing A Soft Song
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
Haunted 1-2-5 ST
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Blind Owl Roads ST
Joni Mitchell You Dream Flat Tires Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
No Exit No Exit ST
Stompin' Tom Connors Carolyne Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Walter Boudreau Boul Chaumont Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Sheila Graham Son of a Preacher Man ST
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
R. Taylor Dean My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Jeremy Dormouse Baby Blue Toad
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
John Greenwood 3/4 Time My Sailboat and Me
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today
Story Structure I Told You (Instrumental Mix) I Told You
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
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
R. Taylor Dean Poor Girl My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Emtidi Saat Saat
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
Willie Dunn Protest Song Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Jack London & the Sparrows Glad to Be With You ST
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation II Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Garden Bower Lonesome Bill’s Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
Stompin' Tom Connors The Birth of the New Dragon Mine The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
John Palmer Salvation's Den Shorelines
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Glenn Dixon As Our Days Fly By Reflections
Derek Scott Markle House Song ST
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Rockadrome Good Dream Royal American 20th Century Blues
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Langley Schools Music Project Sweet Caroline Wix - Brown Elementary School
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Chessmen Mustang Mustang b/w Meadowlands
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
John Greenwood There is Peace My Sailboat and Me
Skarecrow Wee Wee Baby Blues...Live at the Explorer
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Derek Scott Markle To Whisper Out Your Name ST
Story Structure I Told You (Extended Mix) I Told You
Lucio Agostini Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme) Once Upon a Hundred Years
Robert Armes Put Your Cards on the Table Songs for Icarus
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Christmas Waltz Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Hugh Dixon Guitar Soco Guitar Solo (acetate)
Ardels Linda Lou Rhythm & Blues
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Fred Latremouille Mashed Potato Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967

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