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
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
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)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
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
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
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)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

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