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
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
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)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
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
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
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
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt

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