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
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up 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
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
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
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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