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
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
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
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
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
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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