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
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Tyrant Hooked On You Hooked On You b/w Carol
Original Bones Lady Anne ST
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
Jackie Mittoo Stepping Tiger Stepping Tiger
Barry Ennis Mountain of Ice Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Sheila Graham Without You ST
Cargo Once a Proud Man Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Huckle Lady Goldberry Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
David Fromager Catch Him If You Can If What You Said Was True
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Billy Martin Prayer Meetin' Strawberry Soul
Jeremy Dormouse Baby Blue Toad
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Christmas Song Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Reign Ghost Curio Shop ST
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
Hazel McKirdy Mama Didn't Lie End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Huckle Flowers Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Medium Stars ST
Skeptical Eye Sad Jazz The Devil's Playground
Opposite Le Telephone Help Us Make It
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Jeremy Dormouse Young Face Toad
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
Ardels Alley Oop Rhythm & Blues
Glenn Dixon One By One Reflections
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Other Half Travellin Band ST
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Business Man Mr. Oil Man
The Organization Together Forever ST
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
Brégent Le chien Poussière Des Regrets
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Ray Griff Canada Canada "My Native Land"
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Northwind ST
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Funny Feeling Home Grown Stuff
Gentlemen of Horror Bank Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Canadian Beadles Love Walk Away Three Faces North
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu sing Awake in th Red Desert
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Walter Boudreau Boul Chaumont Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Canadian Beadles Whole Lot of Shakin Going On Three Faces North
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
A Joint Effort Horse with No Name Final Effort
Bonnie Scots The Drunken Man Laugh and Cry
Jack London & the Sparrows It's Been One of Those Days ST
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
Huckle Flower To The Sun Wild Blue Yonder
Lucio Agostini Voyageur Canoe Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Northland's Own
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
Lewis Baloue As the Boats Go By Romantic Times
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
Compilation Judy Singh - My Name is Love Unselfconsciously Canadian
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
Trevor Dandy Sometimes Don't Cry Little Tree
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Twice Upon a Never Leavin' On a Jet Plane Twice Upon a Never
Ultimate Image Rains of Autumn It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Art Snider It Was a Very Good Year Corny Songs I Play on My Organ

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