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
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
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)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
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)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

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