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
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
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)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
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
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
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
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
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
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

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