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
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
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)
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)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (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
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
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
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
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)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)

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