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
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Reflections ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Mystique Wake Up Screamin' Black Rider
Brazda Brothers Nature ST
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Moosetracks Hangman ST
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Bear Paws House of the Rising Sun Kitche-Ogamah
Heat Brighouse Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
VXN Illusion of the Heart ST
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Moosetracks Lest We Forget ST
Original Bones Say it With gentle ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Story Structure I Told You (Extended Mix) I Told You
Haunted Searching For My Baby ST
Brégent Le chien Poussière Des Regrets
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
EQ Funky Oasis Swellsville
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau God Bless ST (psych cover)
Gargoyle John Naslen - Varsity Blues (background by David King, Rick Williams, and John King) ST
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
Mantra Drifter (D'arcy Draper) ST
David Wiffen Four in the Mornin' Live at the Bunkhouse
Marty Gillan Home from the Forest Try A Little Kindness
Stompin' Tom Connors Luke's Guitar The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre all th brite eyez deep in the rivr bed Sonic Horses I
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Colourless ST
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Untitled (Make the Answer "Yes") ST
Jerry Palmer Love's Come to Me String of Hits
Haunted Out of Time ST
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Song The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
Biggy Twiggy Band I Don't Want That to Change Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
Papa Bears Medicine Show Wait and See ST
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Perth County Conspiracy Hindsight ST
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Sweet Summer Day ST
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
Grimes Venus In Fleurs Geidi Primes
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra From Russia With Love James Bond 007
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Ronney Mitchell Will it go Round in Circles? The Five Man Cargo
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Teaser Royal American 20th Century Blues
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Stonemen Faded Colors In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Rated "X" "Coming Out"
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST
Vicky and the Coins Five Foot Two ST
Hugh Dixon Saints Go Marching Inn The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Joy Tears to be Cried Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Catseye Love Catseye
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Compilation Stampeders - You Never Know Until You Try International Master Discovery Records
Echoes and a Dream Yesterday's Tomorrow Echoes and a Dream
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Garden Bower Lonesome Bill’s Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
The Organization Who Ever Finds This ST
Ray Griff Our Country Canada "My Native Land"
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Chantettes Harry Was a Communist Remember.....
Ablaze Sadistic Dream Psychopath
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau I'm Not Guilty ST (psych cover)
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
Dennis Walton Sweeter Love Sweeter Love
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes

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

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

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