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
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder Faster
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go

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