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
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
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)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
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
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Hometown Band Flying Flying
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)
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
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)
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away

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