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
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
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)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
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
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
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
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt

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