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

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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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Kozak, Joe - Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Stiffs - The Stiffs

Vancouver, British Columbia

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

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

Cummings, Burton - My Own Way to Rock

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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

Sugluk, Québec

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

Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Willowdale, Ontario

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

Abingdon, England - Toronto, Ontario

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Obomsawin, Alanis - Indian Songs

Lebanon, New Hampshire - Odanak, Québec

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Connors, Stompin' Tom - And the Hockey Song

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

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

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

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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, 🇨🇦

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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

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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
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
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)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy

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