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
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
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)
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
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)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
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
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
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)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

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