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

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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
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)

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