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
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
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)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
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)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
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
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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