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

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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
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
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
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
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
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
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)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
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)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)

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