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
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Ardels Stereo Popeye Rhythm & Blues
Mike Harris Bill Cheatem Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Humble Sponge Barabbas Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
Jack London & the Sparrows Leavin' Blues (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
David House of the Rising Sun ST
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Phillip Werren Polish Wedding music Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet My Dog's Tail is Longer Than Yours Invisible Roots
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
Art Snider Silly Jilly Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Destroy the Nihilistic Picnic Invisible Roots
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
David Little Boys ST
Biggy Twiggy Band I Don't Want That to Change Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
Jarvis Street Revue Sally's Hymn (Smoker's Funeral Song) Mr. Oil Man
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Peter Mathieson Yonge Street Yonge Street b/w heaven Help the Fool
David Wiffen Since I Fell For You Live at the Bunkhouse
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre all th brite eyez deep in the rivr bed Sonic Horses I
Glenn Dixon One By One Reflections
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Intersystems Lately Number One
Rascalz Quest for Rhyme Really Livin'
Skeptical Eye Universal Call - The Message The Devil's Playground
Haunted 1-2-5 ST
Ronney Mitchell It's Your Thing The Five Man Cargo
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia The Undertaker's Ball ST
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
D.N.A. Because I Love You Because I Love You b/w Seashell
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
EQ Serious Swellsville
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silent Night Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Jeremy Dormouse High Flying Bird Toad
Brégent Mon frère Poussière Des Regrets
Nerve Odd Fellows - Mr. Handshake (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ronney Mitchell I've Got to be Me The Five Man Cargo
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Spring Fever Watch Yourself Woodstock
Chessmen Meadowlands Mustang b/w Meadowlands
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Jeff Moore & Friends Blind Man (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Medium The Mouse ST
Compilation Stampeders - You Never Know Until You Try International Master Discovery Records
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Sweet Summer Day ST
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Heat Brighouse Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Uncertain Wipeout Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
A Joint Effort Champagne Junction Final Effort
Gentlemen of Horror Bank ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Other Half Thoughts ST

ST

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

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