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
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
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)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)

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