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
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
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)
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid

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