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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
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)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
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
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
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
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
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)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

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