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
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Glenn Dixon Silence (The Cold Hours Come) Reflections
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
Hugh Dixon Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Jensen Sisters I Want to Give You My Love Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Ardels Night Time is the Right Time Rhythm & Blues
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Passive & Blue Commercials For Free (EP)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Compilation New Brands - Ace Up His Sleeve International Master Discovery Records
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Reign Ghost Black Ode ST
Neil Young My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)
Medium Stars ST
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Ablaze Psycho Path Psychopath
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Mystique No Return Black Rider
Jarvis Street Revue Heidi-Ho (Let Her Go) Mr. Oil Man
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning
Athenians of Toronto 26 or 6 to 4 San Skoteiniazei
Billy Martin If You Care Strawberry Soul
Sweet Somethings Hold On, I'm Comin' hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Randy Bishop Two Jugglers I Sing A Soft Song
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Lucio Agostini Reel Once Upon a Hundred Years
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Uncertain Wipeout Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Roger Rodier The Key Upon Velveatur
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Nerve Odd Fellows - Mr. Handshake (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Tex Lecor Je t'amène avec moi Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Legacy Gimme My Drugs Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Athenians of Toronto Everybody's Everything San Skoteiniazei
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Fabulous PJ's Proud Mary What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Ronney Mitchell I Feel the Earth Move The Five Man Cargo
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
David Lovely Lady ST
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
Echoes and a Dream Thank You (Led Zeppelin) Echoes and a Dream
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
April Wine Shotdown The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Athenians of Toronto Proud Mary San Skoteiniazei
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet #2 Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Ellison Freedom (Vincent Marandola) ST
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Barry Ennis School Days Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Ray Griff D-Dogies Canada "My Native Land"
Spring Fever I Just Want to Make Love to You Woodstock
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
Marty Gillan She's a Woman (Terry Frewer) Try A Little Kindness
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
Moosetracks Lost In A Southern Town ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
Randy Bishop Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts: Act 1) In Honour of a Dissonant Triad; Act 1) A Tale Told By An Idiot; Act 3) Who Was That Unmasked Man?; Act 4) Morning I Sing A Soft Song
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Haunted Out of Time ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Two and The Montreal Scene
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
Matlows If You Were Mine If You Were Mine // Only You
Jerry Palmer Walking Home String of Hits
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra James Bond Theme James Bond 007

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Compilation

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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

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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