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
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
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
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
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
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Kilt Last Call Kilt
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs

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