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

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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
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Basso, Guido Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Kilt Last Call Kilt
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
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)
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
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)
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)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
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
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider

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