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
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
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
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)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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)
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)

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