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
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
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
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
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
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
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)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
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)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
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
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall

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