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
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
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
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
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)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little 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 Homesick The Stiffs
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
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)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
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)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)

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