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
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
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
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
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
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
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
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)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs

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