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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
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)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
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)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
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
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Elan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
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)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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