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
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Sweet Somethings Will You Love Me Tomorrow hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Jeremy Dormouse Believe Me Toad
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST
Terry & The Pyrates Keep On Dancin' Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
David Wiffen More Often Than Not Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Mike Harris Country Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
David Fromager Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Piano Piano ST (psych cover)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
Billy Martin If You Care Strawberry Soul
Twice Upon a Never Leavin' On a Jet Plane Twice Upon a Never
Gargoyle Bill Reach - The Journey Home (Doug Hamilton, guitar; Tim Inkster, bongos) ST
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Skeptical Eye Universal Call - The Message The Devil's Playground
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Canadian Beadles Leah Three Faces North
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre my mouths on fire Awake in th Red Desert
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Langley Schools Music Project Wild Fire Wix - Brown Elementary School
Barbara Gryfe Reunion With the Reserves What the World Needs Now
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
The Organization Who Ever Finds This ST
Dennis Walton Jah Way to Salvation is Easy Sweeter Love
Brazda Brothers Share With Love ST
Liska Dagger of the Soul Cry Out Loud
Jackie Mittoo Harder than the Rest Stepping Tiger
Liska Angela Cry Out Loud
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago
No Exit Decisions ST
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Jeff Moore & Friends Is It You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Randy Bishop Felicitas I Sing A Soft Song
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Nerve Odd Fellows - Mr. Handshake (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
King Beezz She Belongs to Me Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
The Organization Back to Back ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Cargo Child of the Playroom Front Side, Back Side
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Madonna ST
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Chantettes Freight Train Remember.....
Sound Sett You're a Better Man Than I (Mike & Brian Hugg) 1966-1967
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Original Bones Sit Down ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle I'll Take Romance ST
Christmas Just Suppose ST
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Reign Ghost Reaching ST
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre now, according to paragraph C Awake in th Red Desert
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Skarecrow Bring It On Home to Me Blues...Live at the Explorer
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
VXN Just a Game ST
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Ardels Linda Lou Rhythm & Blues
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
Compilation Judy Singh - Emily Unselfconsciously Canadian
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
No Exit Decisions ST
David Fromager Country Boy's Memories If What You Said Was True
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Reign Ghost Southern Hemisphere Blues Legacy ST
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Spring - Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

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

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