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
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
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)
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
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)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
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
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)

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