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

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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
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
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)
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
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)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You

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