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.

FEATURED

Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

Hamilon, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reaction, The - East End Rockers

St. John's, Newfoundland

FEATURED

Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

Lucea, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Thomas, Ian - The Runner

Hamilton, Ontario

FEATURED

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Igloolik, Nunavut, 🇨🇦

Loverboy - Get Lucky

Calgary, Alberta - Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

St. Germain, Ray - ST

St. Vital, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Prism - ST

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Québec City, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

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

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 Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (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
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder Faster
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)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
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
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers

Comments

No Comments