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
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
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)
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
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job

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