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
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
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)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
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)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
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)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)

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