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
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
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
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
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)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Hometown Band Flying Flying
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
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
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

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