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
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
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)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
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
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
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
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing

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