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
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
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)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
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
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
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
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact

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