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
Cargo Initial Mailing Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Hay Gee "Coming Out"
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Walk Your Head Around Home Grown Stuff
David Wiffen Coast to Coast Fever Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Skeptical Eye Universal Call - The Message The Devil's Playground
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Langley Schools Music Project Mandy Wix - Brown Elementary School
Dolores Claman Happy Whistler Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Bonnie Scots The Billy and the Sally Laugh and Cry
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Sound Sett Girl You'll be a Woman Soon (Neil Diamond) 1966-1967
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Do You Agree With Me ST (psych cover)
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Huckle High For Sky Wild Blue Yonder
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Ray Griff Sweet Bird of Youth Canada "My Native Land"
Nucleus Johnny Peace Johnny Peace b/w Ernie's Gone (picture sleeve)
Jeff Moore & Friends Sandy's Song (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Derek Scott Markle A Better Way ST
Riverson Hermit Glen (Rayburn Blake) ST
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
No Exit No Exit ST
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Stompin' Tom Connors Luke's Guitar The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Huckle Beyonder Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
A Joint Effort Horse with No Name Final Effort
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
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
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
The Organization Back to Back ST
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
Trooper 3 Dressed Up as a 9 3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)
Cyrus Eden Rock You To The Limit First Offense (EP)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Arcade Fire Headlights Look like Diamonds ST
Lewis Baloue Things Just Happen That Way L'amour
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre mountain lake Sonic Horses I
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Gargoyle Ian Young - 8th and 25th of December 1969 ST
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
Nomads Four Be On Your Way Be On Your Way b/w Come On Home
Ray Griff Calgary, Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
EQ Bring it On Swellsville
Huckle Flowers Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Stefan Gnys The Pleasant Land of Counterpane English Oaks and Evangeline
Robert Armes Woman in Toronto Songs for Icarus
Other Half Summertime ST
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Hugh Dixon Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Glenn Dixon Sunset Reflections
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Sweet Somethings Hold On, I'm Comin' hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Bear Paws Season of the Wind Kitche-Ogamah
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
Brazda Brothers Nature ST
Sound Sett You're a Better Man Than I (Mike & Brian Hugg) 1966-1967
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Art Snider Something Stupid - Tea for Two Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Catseye Days Gone By Catseye
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST

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

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

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