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
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
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
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late

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