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.

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
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
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
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
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
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
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)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
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
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
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)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs

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