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
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
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
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
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)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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

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