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
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Media Endless Dream 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
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
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)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way

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