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
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
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
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
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)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

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