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
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
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
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
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)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
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
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
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
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
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)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Kilt Last Call Kilt
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider

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