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
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
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)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
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
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
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)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
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
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)

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