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
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
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
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
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
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
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
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
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)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind

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