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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
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)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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