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
Shades of Blond All Your Love All Your Love
Huckle Lady Goldberry Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Pavillion Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #1 ST
Liska Tear Away My Heart Cry Out Loud
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Cargo Talk With Us Front Side, Back Side
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Only Takes a Minute "Coming Out"
Grimes Avi Geidi Primes
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Keep Your Hand Off My Girl Year Zero
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers You Got the Green Light The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Lord Ryur Pact With The Sinner Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Jackie Mittoo Mystic World Stepping Tiger
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Don Carrington Trio If I Were a Carpenter Makin' It Happen
Mystique No Return Black Rider
No Exit When Will They Learn? ST
Grimes Grisgris Geidi Primes
Nihilist Spasm Band Dog Face Man No Record
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
The Amen Peter Zeus Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Roger Rodier The Key Upon Velveatur
Mantra San Francisco Morning (D'arcy Draper) ST
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear
New Creation New Creation Troubled
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Gargoyle John Naslen - Varsity Blues (background by David King, Rick Williams, and John King) ST
David Wiffen Coast to Coast Fever Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Jensen Sisters Do What Makes You Happy Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Roads to New York Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
Jack London & the Sparrows Take it Slow (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
Huckle Ocean Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
No Exit Decisions ST
Original Bones Drop Down Mama ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
Opposite Ebony Eyes Help Us Make It
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Barbara Gryfe Reunion With the Reserves What the World Needs Now
Compilation Tommy Banks Orchestra - Bluesette Unselfconsciously Canadian
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Plateau Mambo ST
Reign Ghost Solar Nice Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Emtidi Saat Saat
Perth County Conspiracy Hurdy-Gurdy Man ST
New Day They're Callin' Me Back Home They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle I'll Take Romance ST
Story Structure I Told You (Instrumental Mix) I Told You
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Echoes and a Dream Midnight Passion Echoes and a Dream
David Little Boys ST
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Ardels Stereo Popeye Rhythm & Blues
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Design Variations The Optic Earful
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Give In Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Twice Upon a Never Last Round Twice Upon a Never
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Until Nine ST (psych cover)
VXN Putting Love Aside Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Stompin' Tom Connors My Swisha Miss Northland's Own
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang James Bond 007
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today

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, 🇨🇦

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Compilation - International Master Discovery Records

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Shades of Blond - All Your Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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

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

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