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
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
Roger Rodier You don't know what it's like Upon Velveatur
Blind Owl Roads ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Opposite Help Us Make it Through the Night Help Us Make It
Liska Dagger of the Soul Cry Out Loud
Gentlemen of Horror Bank Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Pat's People To-day Today
Ardels Theme Rhythm & Blues
John Palmer Better Later Than Never Shorelines
Ronney Mitchell Time Alone Will Tell The Five Man Cargo
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
David Fromager If What You Said Was True If What You Said Was True
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Mock Duck Introduction - Ground Hog Test Record
Brazda Brothers Civilization ST
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Mike Harris Bill Cheatem Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Spring Fever I Just Want to Make Love to You Woodstock
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Sheila Graham Aquarius ST
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) In A Bad Way (Remix) Year Zero
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
New Creation Dig! (The Origin of Man) Troubled
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
EQ Play The Back Swellsville
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Platinum Blonde Hey Hey You Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Riverson Medallion Castle (Brian Edwards) ST
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Sound Sett I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody) 1966-1967
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she, still and curling Awake in th Red Desert
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Moonstone Finas Birthday Song ST
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Two ST
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers What Does it Take The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Jack London & the Sparrows Our Love has Passed ST
Skarecrow Standin' by the Keyhole Blues...Live at the Explorer
British North American Act Corduroy Coat In the Beginning
Stephanie Taylor Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Mike Harris Andy's Favorite Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Garden Bower 18 Bricker Etc. w/ Trains
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
David House of the Rising Sun ST
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Ya Ya Chip Dip
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Moosetracks Lost In A Southern Town ST
Brazda Brothers Share With Love ST
Brégent Je t'Aime Poussière Des Regrets
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Medium New Thing ST
David Descension ST
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Mantra Tomorrow Without You (D'arcy Draper) ST
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
David Wiffen You'll Never Make a Dollar That Way Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Ray Griff Our Country Canada "My Native Land"
Skarecrow Hey Mr. Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Cargo Once a Proud Man Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band People Who Created Me Commercials For Free (EP)
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear

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

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