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
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
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
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
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)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
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
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
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)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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