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 Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
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)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
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
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
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
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Hometown Band Flying Flying
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
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
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)

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