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

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)

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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
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
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
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
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)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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