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
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
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)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
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)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
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
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
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
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

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