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
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
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
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
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
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour 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)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In

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