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
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (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
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
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
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
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
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
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
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)

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