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
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
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)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
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)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
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)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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