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
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
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
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
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)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
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)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing

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