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
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
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
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder Faster
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
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)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
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
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One

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