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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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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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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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Kozak, Joe - Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Stiffs - The Stiffs

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

Cummings, Burton - My Own Way to Rock

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Sugluk - Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

Sugluk, Québec

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Williams, Rod & Super 8 - War b/w War Version

Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Gayle, Otis - Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

Willowdale, Ontario

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McManus, Terry - Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)

Abingdon, England - Toronto, Ontario

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Obomsawin, Alanis - Indian Songs

Lebanon, New Hampshire - Odanak, Québec

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Connors, Stompin' Tom - And the Hockey Song

Saint John, New Brunswick - Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island

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Oster, Al - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Toronto, Ontario

Mitchell, Joni - You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)

Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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Ms. Dolly Gilmore - No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

Bells - Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

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
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
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)
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
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
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)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
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
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
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
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
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 Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
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
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
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)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider

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