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
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France

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