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
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
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
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
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)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
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)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
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
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks

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