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

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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
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
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)
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
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)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
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
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
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)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright

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