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
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (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
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
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)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
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)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
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)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs

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