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

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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
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (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
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
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)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays

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