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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Spencer, Eddie You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
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)
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
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)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne

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