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
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
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
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall

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