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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
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)
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder Faster
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late

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