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

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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
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
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)
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt

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