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

Reaction

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

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

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

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

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger

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