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
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
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)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away

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