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
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
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
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising

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