MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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

Reaction

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)

Witness ad

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
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Norman, Don & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
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)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
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
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
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
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)

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