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
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
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
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
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)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST

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