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
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
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)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
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
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In

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