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
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
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)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
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)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
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)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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