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
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)

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