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

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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
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
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
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
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
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt

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