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
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
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)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
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)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
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)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
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

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