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
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
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)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
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)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt

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