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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
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)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young

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