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
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
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)
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
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)
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)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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