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

Frankie

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)

Witness ad

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
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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