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
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
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
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
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)
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)

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