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

Reaction

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)

Witness ad

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
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
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)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
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
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
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
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
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
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
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
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder Faster
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact

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