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
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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 You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
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
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
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
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
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)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne

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