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
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
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
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
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)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!

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