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

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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
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (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)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
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)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version

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