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
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Papa Bears Medicine Show Soul Kitchen ST
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
Marty Gillan One Act Play (Howie Vickers (The Collectors)) Try A Little Kindness
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
VXN Which One Are You ST
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Langley Schools Music Project Riannon Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Huckle Flower To The Sun Wild Blue Yonder
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Vicky and the Coins When the Saints Go Marching In ST
November Grief Intro To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Gargoyle John Naslen - Varsity Blues (background by David King, Rick Williams, and John King) ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
Fred Latremouille Tossin' and Turnin' Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Barbara Gryfe Reunion With the Reserves What the World Needs Now
A Joint Effort Oh! Canada Final Effort
Black Knight Born To Rock Master of Disaster (EP)
New Day Gotta Spread Some Love Around They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited The Alphatype Beep The Optic Earful
Liska All My Love Cry Out Loud
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Glenn Dixon One By One Reflections
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau God Bless ST (psych cover)
Moonstone Focus ST
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
November Grief Psychotopsy To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Surfs U Rite Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Squires Aurora The Sultan b/w Aurora
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Stompin' Connors Tom Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Lewis Baloue As the Boats Go By Romantic Times
EQ Step Up Swellsville
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Bear Paws All for the Love a Girl Kitche-Ogamah
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Hit The Breaks Year Zero
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Cargo Initial Mailing Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Liska Angela Cry Out Loud
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Jeff Moore & Friends Is It You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia O Come ST
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Season of the Witch ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Two ST
Randy Bishop Felicitas I Sing A Soft Song
Don Carrington Trio A Song for My Father Makin' It Happen
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Untitled (Make the Answer "Yes") ST
New Creation New Creation Troubled
Other Half Thoughts ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Go Tell it On the Mountain Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Biggy Twiggy Band I Don't Want That to Change Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
The Stonefield Morning Hours Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Huckle Ocean Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Art Snider Silly Jilly Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Lewis Baloue Cool Night In Paris L'amour
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair ST
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Riverson Hermit Glen (Rayburn Blake) ST
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Nick Ayoub Quintet Pillsville The Montreal Scene
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

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