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
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
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
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
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)
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
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
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
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real

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