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
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
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)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs

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