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
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
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
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
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)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
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, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (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
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France

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