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.

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

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
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
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)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (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
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (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
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
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)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
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)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (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)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
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)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom

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