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)

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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
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
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
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)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
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

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