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
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
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
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
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)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind

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