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
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
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
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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