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
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
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
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
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)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

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