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
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
Emtidi Love Time Rain Saat
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Ablaze Psycho Path Psychopath
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Canadian Beadles Leah Three Faces North
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Chessmen Meadowlands Mustang b/w Meadowlands
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Love Won't let Me Wait "Coming Out"
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Moosetracks Lost In A Southern Town ST
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck No one in Particular Home Grown Stuff
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Haunted Out of Time ST
Plastic Cloud Bridge Under the Sky ST
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
Skeptical Eye My Life Is The Devil's Playground
Lewis Baloue Summer's Moon L'amour
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Rockadrome Good Dream Royal American 20th Century Blues
R. Taylor Dean Poor Girl My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Grimes Grisgris Geidi Primes
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
David Cup of Tea ST
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part One ST
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Nothing Beautiful ST
Moosetracks Hangman ST
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Athenians of Toronto Proud Mary San Skoteiniazei
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
David Wiffen Blue Live at the Bunkhouse
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear
Christmas Just Suppose ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra James Bond Theme James Bond 007
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Moosetracks Sophie ST
Randy Bishop Childhood Song to Christopher Robin I Sing A Soft Song
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Ted Daigle When You Said You All Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Skarecrow Wee Wee Baby Blues...Live at the Explorer
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
Burgundy Ex-Lovin' Man Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Squires Aurora The Sultan b/w Aurora
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
Braineaters Wrong World Planet X
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
Threads Of Fybre Mama Mama b/w Believe Me
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Dutch Mason Baby Please Don't Go Half Ain't Been Told
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu seem to be apeering to follo sum distant star Sonic Horses I
Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Langley Schools Music Project God Only Knows Wix - Brown Elementary School
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Ray Griff Piano Man Canada "My Native Land"
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
Brégent Le chien Poussière Des Regrets
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Memory Lane The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
Brazda Brothers Nature ST
David Wiffen Times are Getting' Hard Live at the Bunkhouse
Spring Fever Watch Yourself Woodstock
Robert Armes Put Your Cards on the Table Songs for Icarus

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