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
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (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)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me

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