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
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
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)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
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)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
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
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)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

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