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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The Reaction - East End Rockers

St. John's, Newfoundland

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Bob Williams - 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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Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Frank Motley & 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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Ian Thomas - 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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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ray St. Germain - 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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Jean Leloup - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Québec City, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Mike Jones Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Willie Dunn - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

Reaction

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)

Witness ad

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
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
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
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Craig Farraway After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Ian Thomas Painted Ladies ST
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Shawne Jackson Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Etulu Etidlouie Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Alan Gerber Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Eddie Spencer 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)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
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)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Ian Tyson & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Eddie Spencer 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)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Marie Hodgins Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Stompin' Connors Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Joni Mitchell You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Rush The Spirit of Radio Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell

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