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
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (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)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (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)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (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
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
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
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
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)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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