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
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
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)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
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
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
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
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.

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