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
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
Dis Band CKLN Interview continued and Intro Gone Dead Out
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Jarvis Street Revue 20 Years Mr. Oil Man
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Design Variations The Optic Earful
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
May Run Be My Girl Days Into Years
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silent Night Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Riverson Take Me (Rayburn Blake) ST
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Art Snider Lara's Theme Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Christmas Waltz Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Lucio Agostini Dundurn Castle Once Upon a Hundred Years
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Bonnie Scots This Land Is Your Land Laugh and Cry
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Ellison Seal a Beam Bow (Vincent Marandola) ST
Dis Band My Only Hope Gone Dead Out
Lewis Baloue Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
The Fringe Flower Generation Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Roger Rodier My spirits calling Upon Velveatur
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Bonnie Scots Jeanie McCall Laugh and Cry
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
R. Taylor Dean My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
Laurie Ingalls Goin' Home Cheap Champagne
Cargo Rural Route One Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Original Bones Rollin' Over ST
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Squires The Sultan The Sultan b/w Aurora
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Go Tell it On the Mountain Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Stompin' Tom Connors My Swisha Miss Northland's Own
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Nihilist Spasm Band Dog Face Man No Record
The Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Catseye Hedgegate Catseye
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Mock Duck Hurt On Me Test Record
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Stompin' Tom Connors The Birth of the New Dragon Mine The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Gargoyle Larry Smith - I'm Gonna Love You ST
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Cargo Black Window Front Side, Back Side
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
Ted Daigle Farewell Adelita Teenage Time
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Song From Beads ST
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Love Won't let Me Wait "Coming Out"
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Benge Money Man Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Jeremy Dormouse the immortal st. canthor Toad Rejects
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
The Organization Back to Back ST
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Laurie Ingalls Midnight Lady Cheap Champagne
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
Mike Harris Patty the Coon Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Derek Scott Markle Could it Be ST
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Roger Rodier You don't know what it's like Upon Velveatur
Ladykiller Still Madly in Love Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Skarecrow Sea-Suckin' Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Grimes Venus In Fleurs Geidi Primes
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
Compilation Buddy Victor - The More I See You Unselfconsciously Canadian
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner

Ready to Rock b/w (with Gerry Fiander)

Gerry Fiander with Elvis Presley (History Van R&R Vol 1)

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison / Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)

Gone Dead Out

Dis Band

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 02

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 01

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out BACK

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out FRONT FOLDOUT

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

ST

Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

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