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)

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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
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
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)
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
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
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go

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