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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
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
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
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
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
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)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)

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