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
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
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)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
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
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
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)

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