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
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
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
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
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
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
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
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)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
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)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
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)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds

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