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
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Rush The Trees Hemispheres
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
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)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
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
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France

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