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
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
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)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
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)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
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 Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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