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.

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)

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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
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
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)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
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
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God

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