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
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
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)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
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)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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