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

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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
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
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
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
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
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
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)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)

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