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
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour 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
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
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)
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)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning

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