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
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
Dennis Walton Sweeter Love Sweeter Love
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Ray Griff Garrington Canada "My Native Land"
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Sheila Graham Son of a Preacher Man ST
Braineaters Screw You Planet X
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
Mock Duck Sitting on Top of the World Test Record
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Dutch Mason Ain't Nobody's Business Half Ain't Been Told
Garden Bower Gord’s Dream Etc. w/ Trains
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Canadian Beadles I Just Don't Think it's Fair Three Faces North
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Two ST
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
No Exit No Exit ST
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Hugh Dixon Delilah The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Roger Rodier You don't know what it's like Upon Velveatur
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Sunshine "Coming Out"
Jack London & the Sparrows Dream on Dreamer ST
Lewis Baloue Summer's Moon L'amour
Bear Paws House of the Rising Sun Kitche-Ogamah
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Sweet Somethings Summertime hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Boys Brigade Voices Live Off-The-Floor Demo
The Organization Together Forever ST
Moonstone Cointreau ST
Legacy Come With Me Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Ray Griff Maple Leaf Canada "My Native Land"
Moonstone In Case ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Who You Frontin' For (Remix) Year Zero
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Teaser Royal American 20th Century Blues
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Jackie Mittoo World of Love Stepping Tiger
Nina Dunn Stay and Dance If You Want My Love (Do It) b/w Stay and Dance
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair ST
Mike Harris Country Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Derek Scott Markle Southern Lady ST
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Huckle Wild Night Wild Blue Yonder
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Tex Lecor John McNally Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Swords of Gold ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Derek Scott Markle House Song ST
Medium The Mouse ST
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Jackie Mittoo Russian Satelite Stepping Tiger
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
High Park Let Go the Lifeline Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Ellison Freedom (Vincent Marandola) ST
Diodes The Curse - War Raw / War (split with The Curse)
Barbara Gryfe What the World Needs Now What the World Needs Now
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal West The Montreal Scene
Opposite Baby Why Help Us Make It
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
David Wiffen Courtin' in the Kitchen Live at the Bunkhouse
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) The Bassment Show Year Zero
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Modern Rock Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
Mystique No Return Black Rider
London Experimental Jazz Quartet My Dog's Tail is Longer Than Yours Invisible Roots
Rockadrome Thirteen Miles Down Royal American 20th Century Blues
David Fromager Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Don Carrington Trio MacArthur Park Makin' It Happen
Original Bones Rollin' Over ST
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

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