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
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
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
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
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
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
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
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
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
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
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
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)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)

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