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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
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
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late

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