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
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
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)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
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
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
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)
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)

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