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
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
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
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
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)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
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)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink

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