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
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
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
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club 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
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
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)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
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
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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