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
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Canadian Beadles I'm Coming Home Three Faces North
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Skarecrow Ballad of Glen & Trevor Blues...Live at the Explorer
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Pepper Tree The Gypsy Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Bonnie Scots Lonely Prison Cell Laugh and Cry
David Alvin J. Ashtray ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Randy Bishop Two Jugglers I Sing A Soft Song
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Reign Ghost Black Ode ST
Ardels Theme Rhythm & Blues
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
David Wiffen You'll Never Make a Dollar That Way Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
David Hey Jude ST
John Greenwood Mother's Day Love My Sailboat and Me
Jack London & the Sparrows You Don’t Want Me Now ST
Braineaters Wrong World Planet X
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
The Organization Back to Back ST
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Brad Richards Send a Little Love My Way Right Time for Love
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to You ST
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
Brazda Brothers Gemini ST
Lewis Baloue Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
Barbara Gryfe Evening of Roses What the World Needs Now
Ray Griff Jimmy, Luke and Me Canada "My Native Land"
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Threads Of Fybre Mama Mama b/w Believe Me
Jensen Sisters I'm Gonna Love You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
November Grief Infanticide To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Nerve Odd Fellows - Cretonia (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Moonstone David ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Rainbow ST
Chantettes Un Canadian Errant Remember.....
Cargo Alisa Front Side, Back Side
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Dutch Mason Dust My Broom Half Ain't Been Told
British North American Act Corduroy Coat In the Beginning
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Ronney Mitchell I've Got to be Me The Five Man Cargo
Jarvis Street Revue Heidi-Ho (Let Her Go) Mr. Oil Man
Haunted Horror Show ST
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Smile Maria Smile The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Spring Fever Mama, What About Your Daughter Woodstock
Trevor Dandy Sometimes Don't Cry Little Tree
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Billy Martin Watermelon Man Strawberry Soul
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Vic Vogel Close to You Montreal Bandleader
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
John Palmer Free Me Shorelines
Sweet Somethings Will You Love Me Tomorrow hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra On Her Majesty's Secret Service James Bond 007
Chantettes Hush Little Baby Remember.....
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre an ode to d a levy Awake in th Red Desert
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Haunted A Message to Pretty ST
Roger Rodier While my castles burning Upon Velveatur
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Mike Harris Wednesday Night Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Ray Griff Mama, This One's for You Canada "My Native Land"
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Moonstone Hope You Come See ST
Nihilist Spasm Band When in London Sleep at the York Hotel No Record
Langley Schools Music Project Saturday Night Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
The Organization Don't Let the Green Grass Fool Ya ST
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST

Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

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

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