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
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
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)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
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)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

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