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
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Dolores Claman Happy Whistler Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Christmas Your Humble Suitor ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Bent Wind Mystify Sussex
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Brazda Brothers 20th Century ST
Moonstone Said Gently ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Stompin' Connors Tom The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Lucio Agostini Up, Up and a Bull Once Upon a Hundred Years
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
Canadian Beadles Mojo Workout Three Faces North
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST
Trooper 3 Dressed Up as a 9 3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Catseye Days Gone By Catseye
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre and th green wind Awake in th Red Desert
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
The Organization 60 Years Ago ST
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Jackie Mittoo World of Love Stepping Tiger
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
George Hauschild & Carole But For Love Penticton b/w But For Love
Triaxe Chain of Superstition Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Huckle Wild Night Wild Blue Yonder
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau I'm Not Guilty ST (psych cover)
Brazda Brothers Civilization ST
Nucleus Johnny Peace Johnny Peace b/w Ernie's Gone (picture sleeve)
Emtidi Walkin' In The Park Saat
David Wiffen Blue Live at the Bunkhouse
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Randy Bishop Felicitas I Sing A Soft Song
Jarvis Street Revue 20 Years Mr. Oil Man
A Joint Effort Battle of New Orleans Final Effort
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
Grimes Zoal, Face Dancer Geidi Primes
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Colourless ST
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Jarvis Street Revue Sally's Hymn (Smoker's Funeral Song) Mr. Oil Man
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
Willie Dunn Protest Song Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Bear Paws Devil Is On the Run Kitche-Ogamah
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
The Fringe Token For My Mind Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
Pat's People Michael Today
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
November Grief Grass Is Gold To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Rascalz Kibbles 'N Bits Really Livin'
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Cargo Talk With Us Front Side, Back Side
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
David Hey Jude ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
David Wiffen Four in the Mornin' Live at the Bunkhouse
Langley Schools Music Project Sweet Caroline Wix - Brown Elementary School
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
Stompin' Connors Tom My Swisha Miss Northland's Own
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Stompin' Connors Tom Little Wawa Northland's Own
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als I'm Happy Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Hay Gee "Coming Out"
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Echoes and a Dream Just Trying to Be Echoes and a Dream
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Phillip Werren Polish Wedding music Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Riverson Medallion Castle (Brian Edwards) ST
Pat's People Less of Me Today
Braineaters London Town Planet X
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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

ST

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

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