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
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (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)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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