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
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
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)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté

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