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
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
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
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
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)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love

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