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
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
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
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
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
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks

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