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
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
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)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
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)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
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
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
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)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
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
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
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)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright

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