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
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
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)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
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
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
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
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

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