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
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
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)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
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
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift

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