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

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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
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
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
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
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)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
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)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
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
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
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)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody

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