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
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)
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
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)
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
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)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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 Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST

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