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)

Witness ad

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
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
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
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
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
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
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)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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