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
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Phollop Willing P.A. Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (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)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
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
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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