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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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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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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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Kozak, Joe - Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Stiffs - The Stiffs

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

Cummings, Burton - My Own Way to Rock

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Sugluk - Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

Sugluk, Québec

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Williams, Rod & Super 8 - War b/w War Version

Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Gayle, Otis - Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

Willowdale, Ontario

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McManus, Terry - Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)

Abingdon, England - Toronto, Ontario

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Obomsawin, Alanis - Indian Songs

Lebanon, New Hampshire - Odanak, Québec

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Connors, Stompin' Tom - And the Hockey Song

Saint John, New Brunswick - Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island

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Oster, Al - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Toronto, Ontario

Mitchell, Joni - You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)

Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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Ms. Dolly Gilmore - No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

Bells - Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

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)

Witness ad

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
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
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)
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
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
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
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
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go

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