MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

This playlist is a curated journey through Canada's most significant and influential singles, as selected by Robert Williston for the Museum of Canadian Music. Spanning genres, decades, and regions, it showcases the diversity and richness of Canadian music history.

From iconic tracks like Stompin' Tom Connors' "The Hockey Song" to rare gems such as The Media's "Girl I Want You," this collection highlights both celebrated hits and obscure treasures. Each entry reflects a piece of Canada's musical tapestry, offering listeners a comprehensive overview of the nation's sonic heritage.

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

Hamilon, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

St. John's, Newfoundland

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

Lucea, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

Hamilton, Ontario

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Igloolik, Nunavut, 🇨🇦

Loverboy - Get Lucky

Calgary, Alberta - Vancouver, British Columbia

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

St. Vital, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

Calgary, Alberta

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A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Prism - ST

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Québec City, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

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Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Arthur Scammel - Squid Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Second and longest-lasting lineup, l-r: Ed Clynton, Dave Tupper, Kenny Shields, Allen Ayers and Les Bateman (kneeling)

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The Fringe - Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

Joni Mitchell - Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne b/w The Partisan

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

Kings - Switchin' to Glide b/w My Habit (promo)

Rabble - You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

k.d. lang - Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Guess Who - Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)

Bob Williams - I'm Alright (Part One) b/w I'm Alright (Part Two)

Rick Buckthorp

The Fringe

The Fringe

'Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

MG & the Escorts 1967 promo from RPM Magazine November 11, 1967

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love

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