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
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
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)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
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)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City

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