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

Reaction

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)

Witness ad

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
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
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)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child

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