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

Reaction

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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
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)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
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)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
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
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
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)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
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
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST

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