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
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
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
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
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
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'

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