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
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
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)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
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
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times

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