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
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)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
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
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies

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