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
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
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
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom

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