MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Rush Tom Sawyer Moving Pictures
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Rush The Spirit of Radio Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
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
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
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)
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
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)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
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)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.

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