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)

Witness ad

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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
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)
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
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
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
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
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
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST

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