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
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
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)
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)

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