MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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.

FEATURED

Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reaction, The - East End Rockers

St. John's, Newfoundland

FEATURED

Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Prism - ST

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Québec City, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kozak, Joe - Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Stiffs - The Stiffs

Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

Cummings, Burton - My Own Way to Rock

Winnipeg, Manitoba

FEATURED

Sugluk - Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

Sugluk, Québec

FEATURED

Williams, Rod & Super 8 - War b/w War Version

Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Gayle, Otis - Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

Willowdale, Ontario

FEATURED

McManus, Terry - Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)

Abingdon, England - Toronto, Ontario

FEATURED

Obomsawin, Alanis - Indian Songs

Lebanon, New Hampshire - Odanak, Québec

FEATURED

Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Connors, Stompin' Tom - And the Hockey Song

Saint John, New Brunswick - Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island

FEATURED

Oster, Al - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Toronto, Ontario

Mitchell, Joni - You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)

Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ms. Dolly Gilmore - No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

Bells - Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

Montréal, Québec

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

Reaction

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

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
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
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)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
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)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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)
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
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)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Comments

No Comments