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
Jarvis Street Revue 300 South Mr. Oil Man
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Keep Your Hand Off My Girl Year Zero
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Platinum Blonde Hey Hey You Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Canadian Beadles Whole Lot of Shakin Going On Three Faces North
Willie Dunn Protest Song Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Opposite Baby Why Help Us Make It
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Catseye Love Catseye
Liska Dagger of the Soul Cry Out Loud
David Wiffen Don't Think Twice Live at the Bunkhouse
Fred Latremouille Tossin' and Turnin' Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
Huckle Flowers Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
The Organization Pretty City Lady ST
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Moosetracks Lest We Forget ST
Brégent Mon frère Poussière Des Regrets
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Reprise Royal American 20th Century Blues
British North American Act Corduroy Coat In the Beginning
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Brégent Dans ma maison Poussière Des Regrets
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
Grimes Grisgris Geidi Primes
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Huckle High For Sky Wild Blue Yonder
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Listen Here Chip Dip
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Billy Martin Funky Feelin' Strawberry Soul
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Season of the Witch ST
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Shagnasty All My Teachers Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Rockadrome Good Dream Royal American 20th Century Blues
Ronney Mitchell Welcome to the Country The Five Man Cargo
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
No Exit Parliament Swindle ST
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Haunted Twist ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Buck Shots ST
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Ardels Theme Rhythm & Blues
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Mock Duck Introduction - Ground Hog Test Record
November Grief Grass Is Gold To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra On Her Majesty's Secret Service James Bond 007
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Stompin' Tom Connors Carolyne Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Lucio Agostini Dundurn Castle Once Upon a Hundred Years
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) The Bassment Show Year Zero
Stefan Gnys English Oaks English Oaks and Evangeline
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Rock-a-tunes You're Some Kind of Nice Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Moonstone Hope You Come See ST
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
David Never Been In Love ST
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Emtidi Saat Saat
Bent Wind Hate Sussex
Ray Griff Jacket River Canada "My Native Land"
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Rockadrome Very Strange Royal American 20th Century Blues
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn u cum into me Sonic Horses I
Haunted Shake ST
David House of the Rising Sun ST
Echoes and a Dream Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull) Echoes and a Dream
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Let's Make Up Your Mind (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST

Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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

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