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
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
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 Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
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)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
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
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)

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