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
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
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)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
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
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
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
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy

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