MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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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The Reaction - East End Rockers

St. John's, Newfoundland

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Bob Williams - 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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Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Frank Motley & 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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Ian Thomas - 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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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ray St. Germain - 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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Jean Leloup - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Québec City, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mike Jones Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Willie Dunn - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

Reaction

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)

Witness ad

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
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
Don Jewitt Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Eddie Spencer 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)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
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)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
The Fringe Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Clint Ryan Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Marie Hodgins Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
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
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Jim Ashby Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Debbie Myers Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Ian Tyson & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Stompin' Connors Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse

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