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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
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
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
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)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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