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
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
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
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away

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