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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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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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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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Kozak, Joe - Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Stiffs - The Stiffs

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

Cummings, Burton - My Own Way to Rock

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Sugluk - Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

Sugluk, Québec

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Williams, Rod & Super 8 - War b/w War Version

Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Gayle, Otis - Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

Willowdale, Ontario

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McManus, Terry - Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)

Abingdon, England - Toronto, Ontario

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Obomsawin, Alanis - Indian Songs

Lebanon, New Hampshire - Odanak, Québec

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Connors, Stompin' Tom - And the Hockey Song

Saint John, New Brunswick - Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island

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Oster, Al - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Toronto, Ontario

Mitchell, Joni - You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)

Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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Ms. Dolly Gilmore - No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

Bells - Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

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)

Witness ad

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
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
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)
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
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
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
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
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
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
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse

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