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
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
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)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
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)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois

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