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
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
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
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
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)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker

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