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
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
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
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (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)

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