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
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
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)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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