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
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
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)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Hometown Band Flying Flying
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
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You

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