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
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
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)
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
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)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas

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