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
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
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
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
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)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST

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