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
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
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
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Power of Beckett Back to Me 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
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
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
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)

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