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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
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
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
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)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
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)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
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)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
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
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
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)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey

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