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
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
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)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
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)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
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)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
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
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
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)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
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)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)

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