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
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
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
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
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)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Kilt Last Call Kilt
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
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (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)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)

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