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
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
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)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
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
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
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
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)

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