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
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
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)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
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
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
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)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

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