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
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
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
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
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)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
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
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
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)
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding

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