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
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
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)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times

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