CBC Radio Canada LM Series

CBC Radio Canada LM Series

A cornerstone of Canadian recorded history, the CBC LM Series stands as a testament to the nation's cultural and musical legacy. Pressed in limited quantities for internal distribution to CBC radio stations, these rare singles and LPs captured live broadcasts, commissioned works, and studio sessions spanning classical, jazz, folk, experimental, Indigenous, and multicultural sounds. Issued primarily throughout the 1960s to 1980s, each slab is a sonic time capsule—showcasing the depth, diversity, and artistry nurtured by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. With 243 titles catalogued here (at Mar 7, 2026), this collection offers an unparalleled glimpse into Canada’s musical soul.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Bruno Gerussi & Tommy Ambrose City Tree Fuzzy Love
Compilation Wade Brothers - Sad Sad Story CBC Comp 420
Pacific Salt Country Detour Vancouver Instrumental Group
Doug Parker I Will Wait for You Vancouver Big Band
Carse Sneddon Quintet I Love Paris ST
Jimmy Dale Triste Soft and Groovy
Johnny Holmes Orchestra Lonely Is the Name (Kaempfert–Rehbein–Sigman) The Brass Therapy (Montreal Brass Band)
Wickham and Crawford Wish I Could Fly Toronto Folk-rock Duo
Reg Gibson These Eyes (Bachman-Cummings) That Country Feeling
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Russian Rag (Cobb) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
Compilation Ron Hynes - Roads CBC Comp 402
Milan Kymlicka First Movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 Christmas With Milan
Small Town Band Beyond the Need CBC Comp 403 comp
Travellers Italian Christmas Song The Traveller's Christmas
Vanda King Papa Won’t You Let Me Go To Town In a Long White Room b/w Papa Won’t You Let Me Go to Town (with The Guido Basso Orchestra)
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silent Night Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Karen Oxley By Myself Dreams And Wishes (With Dave Woods Orchestra)
Joyce Sullivan If He Walked Into My Life Joyce Sullivan, vocalist with Johnny Burt Orchestra
Clary Croft Dream Street Dreams Halifax Vocalist
Dave Robbins Band Jean ST
Doug Randle Get Happy Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Jimmy Dale Beautiful Toronto Instrumental
Lisa Dal Bello The Old Man Lisa Dal Bello (14-Year Old Toronto Singer / Composer)
Sheila Graham Son of a Preacher Man ST
Juliette (Juliette Augustina Sysak) Honey on the Vine (Crutchfieold-Burch) Juliette with the Lucio Agostini Orchestra
Compilation Nancy Simmonds - Come Back Home To Me CBC Comp 432
Vic Vogel Close to You Montreal Bandleader
Karen Oxley Christmas Eve With You Halifax Christmas Vocal
Bob Francis Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast with Thursday's Children & The Guido Basso Orchestra (from CBC TV's Bandwagon)
Small Town Band It's Harder Looking Up Than Looking Down Richmond B.C. Folk Group
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Midnight Cowboy (John Barry) Now!
Lucio Agostini Sunwheel Dance (Bruce Cockburn) Toronto Composer / Arranger
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Skylark (Carmichael) Norma Locke, vocalist
Gabrielle Bugeaud Dreams and Wishes CBC Comp 434 comp
Wickham and Crawford New Life to Lose Toronto folk-rock duo
Al Harris Great Day The Al Harris Ensemble (split with Doug Parker Big Band)
Stephanie Taylor Feeling Groovy "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Nancy Nash Empty Stage CBC Comp 439 comp
Bobby Hales Big Band Dark Young Man Vancouver Instrumental
Johnny Holmes Orchestra Doodlin Ray Berthiaume and Margo McKinnon, vocalists
Sandy Michael Ain't No Sunshine Calgary Vocalist
Duane Davis (Duane Stewart) Little Green Apples Reflections
Wild Rice When I Grow Up (Bill Iveniuk) CBC Comp 406 comp
Ben McPeek Goodbye If Only We Could See b/w Goodbye
Bob Ruzicka Save Tomorrow for the Children Edmonton Singer / Composer
Stone Hand Midnight Sunshine Jane Street Song/ Nova Scotia b/w Midnight Sunshine/ Mary Margaret Haggerty
Joani Taylor How Insensitive Joani Taylor with Dave Robbins Orchestra and the Numerality Singers
Dave Robbins Band Have Vine Will Swing (feat. Fraser Macpherson, Don Thompson & Dave Robbins) Happy Faces
Yvan Landry Quartet Crépuscule Café Au Lait
Herb Marshall Never Can Say Goodbye (Clifton Davis) Toronto Vocalist
Gordie Fleming Poem for the People The Gordie Fleming Orchestra (Small Montreal Orchestra)
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Gotta Travel On From CBC Vancouver
Gordie Fleming Just a Helping Hand (Gordie Fleming) Gordie Fleming's "Time Machine" (Montreal Male Vocal Quartet With Orchestra)
Compilation P.J. Perry - Do You Know Where You're Going To Pieces of Dreams
Kenzie MacNeil Cape Breton Lullaby Singer From Sydney, N.S.
Jerry Toth Singers How I Think of You Moment of Love
Hogtown Trumpets Aztec CBC Comp 434 comp
Gordie Fleming Montreal, Je t'aime (Gordie Fleming) The Gordie Fleming Orchestra (Small Montreal Orchestra)
Charles Coleman Trio Will You Still be Mine ST (split with Martin Slavin Sextet)
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Duane Davis (Duane Stewart) You and Me Against the World CBC Comp 418 comp
Pat Riccio Then I'll Be Tired of You (Schwarz-Harburg) Doug Crosley: vocals From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Compilation David Essig - Backwater Blues The Best Of Touch the Earth
Compilation David Wilcox - Old Cats Schooled For You
Dave Robbins Band Wave ST
Doug Parker If You Could Read My Mind Vancouver Instrumental
Gene Lees Footprints Bridges: Gene Lees Sings The Gene Lees Song Book
Bill Hosie Le chant du peddleur Singer From Halifax
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Speak Low From CBC Vancouver
Carse Sneddon Quintet Cotton Tail ST
Paul Zaza Sweet City Woman (Rich Dodson) Rainy Days and Mondays/ Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me Baby b/w You've Got a Friend/ Sweet City Woman
Karen Marklinger What A Little Love Can Do It’s A Great Life/ Put a Memory Away b/w What A Little Love Can Do/ Long Way Home
Compilation Edwards & Devilliers - Benz Ride CBC Comp 405
Bobby Griffith G. Ain't No Chicken Toronto Vocalist/Composer
Len Udow Peace in the City CBC Comp 403 comp
Ian McDougall Cliches Music by Ian McDougall
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Invocation: Gold (The Challenge) Transformations - Invocations
Judy Singh So I'm Wrong Again A Time for Love
Johnny Holmes Orchestra The Call (Gene MacLellan) 17-piece Montreal Orchestra
Bruno Gerussi & Tommy Ambrose Once Upon a Special Time Fuzzy Love
Jimmy Dale Only Love Can Break Your Heart Toronto Instrumental
Jimmy Dale The Look Of Love Soft and Groovy
Clary Croft Something In Your Face Dave Woods Orchestra
Compilation John Capek - Saturday Morning CBC Comp 432
Jimmy Dale Alone Again, Naturally Toronto Instrumental
Patrician McKinnon Anne Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues (Danny O'keefe) Halifax Vocalist
Compilation Valdy - Every One Of Them Has Known The Sea The Best Of Touch the Earth
Jim Pirie Mark Twain Songs for The Young at Heart
Anne Campbell Singers Two Canadian Folk Songs: An Eskimo Lullaby The Anne Campbell Singers
Compilation Mike McAnany - Simple Song to You CBC Comp 412
Johnny Holmes Orchestra So Nice Montreal 17 piece Orchestra
Ken Fisher and Group Feelin' All Right ST (split with The Canadian Downbeats)
John Cassidy and the Assembly Na Name Samba CBC Comp 414 comp
Dave Robbins Band Games People Play ST
Brent Titcomb Roll Away the Grey Sahajiya
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Shuffle Boogie, Swamp, Groove Blue Toronto Instrumental
Perth County Conspiracy Hurdy-Gurdy Man ST
Martin Slavin Sextet It Happened in the Spring ST (split with Charles Coleman Trio)
Nick Ayoub Septet Pretty Girl (Nick Ayoub) Masque Nade
Compilation Ron Hynes - Change My Name CBC Comp 402

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

The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

17-piece Montreal Orchestra

Available Space Featuring Cherie Camp

CBC Comp 404

Campbell, Anne Singers

One Minuters

Camp, Cherie

Cherie Camp, Margaret Trudeau et le guitariste John Welsman. Ottawa

ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Bickert, Ed

Toronto Instrumental

The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

Browne, Brian Trio

Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert

Love Talk

Put Your Hand in the Hand

Basso, Guido

Toronto Singer / Composer

Bridges: Gene Lees Sings The Gene Lees Song Book

Lees, Gene

Songs for the New Industrial State

with Thursday's Children & The Guido Basso Orchestra (from CBC TV's Bandwagon)

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

If Only We Could See b/w Goodbye

McPeek, Ben

Basso, Guido - Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

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