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

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
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)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
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
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
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)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
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
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
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)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)

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