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
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
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)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
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
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
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
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
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
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
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
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)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go

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