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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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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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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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Kozak, Joe - Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Stiffs - The Stiffs

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan

Cummings, Burton - My Own Way to Rock

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Sugluk - Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

Sugluk, Québec

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Williams, Rod & Super 8 - War b/w War Version

Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Gayle, Otis - Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

Willowdale, Ontario

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McManus, Terry - Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)

Abingdon, England - Toronto, Ontario

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Obomsawin, Alanis - Indian Songs

Lebanon, New Hampshire - Odanak, Québec

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Connors, Stompin' Tom - And the Hockey Song

Saint John, New Brunswick - Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island

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Oster, Al - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Toronto, Ontario

Mitchell, Joni - You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)

Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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Ms. Dolly Gilmore - No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

Bells - Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
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
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
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)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Underworld Go Away Go Away b/w Bound
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
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)
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner

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