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
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
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
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
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
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)

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