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
Stompin' Tom Connors Streets of Toronto Northland's Own
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Phillip Werren Dance Music II Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Shades of Blond All Your Love All Your Love
Original Bones Say it With gentle ST
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys I`ll Spend My Life Loving You Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
EQ Bring it On Swellsville
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
EQ Serious Swellsville
Art Snider Silly Jilly Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Hugh Dixon Blues Stay Away From Me The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Ellison Seal a Beam Bow (Vincent Marandola) ST
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Lewis Baloue Things Just Happen That Way L'amour
Marty Gillan Try a Little Kindness Try A Little Kindness
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
David Wiffen Coast to Coast Fever Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
New Creation New Creation Troubled
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ray Griff Garrington Canada "My Native Land"
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Lost Soul Dept. Wild-Weekend Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
Haunted Shake ST
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
VXN Running Out ST
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Stompin' Tom Connors The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Black Knight Metal Screams Master of Disaster (EP)
Sweet Somethings Pot of Gold hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
John Palmer Salvation's Den Shorelines
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
Langley Schools Music Project Mandy Wix - Brown Elementary School
Opposite Help Us Make it Through the Night Help Us Make It
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Chantettes Sail Away Remember.....
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Mike Harris Country Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Skarecrow My Coffee's Gettin' Cold Blues...Live at the Explorer
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Nerve Odd Fellows - Mr. Handshake (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Ted Daigle Farewell Adelita Teenage Time
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
New Creation Songs to Sing Troubled
Ronney Mitchell Fools Rush in The Five Man Cargo
Nick Ayoub Quintet Pillsville The Montreal Scene
Gargoyle John Naslen - Varsity Blues (background by David King, Rick Williams, and John King) ST
Pat's People Dona Dona Today
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
Langley Schools Music Project Riannon Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Moonstone Focus ST
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
New Creation Wind Troubled
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Reign Ghost Pudsy's Parable Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
Stonemen Faded Colors In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre is yr car 2 soft 4 th road Awake in th Red Desert
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST

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