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
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
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)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
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)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!

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