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
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
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
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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)
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
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)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
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
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider

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