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
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
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)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
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

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