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
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
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
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
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
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
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
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
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
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
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)
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

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