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
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
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)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
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)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
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
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
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)
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
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
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)

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