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
Sound Sett Harlem Nocturne (Earle Hagen) 1966-1967
Chantettes Sail Away Remember.....
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
Ronney Mitchell Sandy The Five Man Cargo
Skeptical Eye Mama Does'n Understand The Devil's Playground
Gargoyle Ian Young - 8th and 25th of December 1969 ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Christmas Song Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
Randy Bishop Felicitas I Sing A Soft Song
Mantra Simple Joys (D'arcy Draper) ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Brazda Brothers Calm River ST
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
David Wiffen Times are Getting' Hard Live at the Bunkhouse
Mystique Wake Up Screamin' Black Rider
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Sweet Somethings My Guy (From My Girl) hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Ray Griff Jimmy, Luke and Me Canada "My Native Land"
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Roads to New York Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Twice Upon a Never California Dreamin' Twice Upon a Never
Riverson I'll be There (Brian Edwards) ST
Skarecrow My Coffee's Gettin' Cold Blues...Live at the Explorer
Jensen Sisters I'm Gonna Love You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Wanda Unda Landa Chip Dip
Jackie Mittoo Stepping Tiger Stepping Tiger
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
David Fromager Catch Him If You Can If What You Said Was True
David Wiffen Blue Live at the Bunkhouse
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Twice Upon a Never Last Round Twice Upon a Never
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
VXN Which One Are You ST
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Haunted Shake ST
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Sunrise Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Fabulous PJ's Proud Mary What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Stefan Gnys Soliloguy English Oaks and Evangeline
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Dennis Walton Jah Way to Salvation is Easy Sweeter Love
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Silhouette ST
EQ Help a Bruva Out Swellsville
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Medium Stars ST
Bear Paws House of the Rising Sun Kitche-Ogamah
Burgundy Lady Blue Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Langley Schools Music Project In My Room Wix - Brown Elementary School
Grimes Avi Geidi Primes
Barbara Gryfe What the World Needs Now What the World Needs Now
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Jeremy Dormouse Small Man Toad
Art Snider It Was a Very Good Year Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
EQ Come Alive (King Otto Remix) Swellsville
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
Compilation New Brands - Ace Up His Sleeve International Master Discovery Records
Grimes Feyd Rautha Dark Heart Geidi Primes
Canadian Beadles Mojo Workout Three Faces North
Perth County Conspiracy So Many Things ST
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
David Descension ST
Jerry Palmer Come Along With Me String of Hits
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Braineaters London Town Planet X
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Moosetracks This Place is No Place to be Happy ST
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th deacon bros in barbados Awake in th Red Desert

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

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