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
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
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)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
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)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy

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