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
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
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)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
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
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
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)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late

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