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
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
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)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up

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