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
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Mike Harris Norwegian Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Spade Nielsen What's Happening Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Stompin' Connors Tom Algoma Central No. 69 Northland's Own
Gargoyle George Dawber - Remembering Morris ST
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Triaxe Chain of Superstition Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Hugh Dixon Delilah The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Broadway Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Skarecrow Ballad of Glen & Trevor Blues...Live at the Explorer
Gargoyle Ron Puschak - Ballad of Simon Legree ST
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
John Palmer Salvation's Den Shorelines
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
Ted Daigle Red Hen Hop Teenage Time
Derek Scott Markle Could it Be ST
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
EQ Come Alive (King Otto Remix) Swellsville
Ray Griff Canada Canada "My Native Land"
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
A Joint Effort Horse with No Name Final Effort
No Exit When Will They Learn? ST
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
George Hauschild & Carole Penticton Penticton b/w But For Love
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Medium In Between ST
Sheila Graham Gentle On My Mind ST
Canadian Beadles Lonely Blue Boy Three Faces North
Rascalz Quest for Rhyme Really Livin'
Stefan Gnys Machine English Oaks and Evangeline
Jarvis Street Revue Sally's Hymn (Smoker's Funeral Song) Mr. Oil Man
Stefan Gnys Another Time Another Place English Oaks and Evangeline
Stompin' Connors Tom The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own
Twice Upon a Never A World of Our Own Twice Upon a Never
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre and th green wind Awake in th Red Desert
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
Les Bel Kanto A Kind of Break Down A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Liska Cry Out Loud Cry Out Loud
Other Half 100 lbs. Clay ST
Athenians of Toronto Opi Aniko San Skoteiniazei
New Creation Where Are You Going? Troubled
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Reflections ST
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Christmas Song Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 3) (Dick Kelder) ST
Hugh Dixon Blues Stay Away From Me The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
The Organization Change in the Weather ST
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song

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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

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

The First See Hear

Vogel, Vic

James Bond 007

CD-Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - Present James Bond 007 CD

CD-Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - Present James Bond 007 INLAY

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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