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
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
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
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
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)
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
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)
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In

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