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
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
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)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
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)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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