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
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
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
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Jewitt, Don Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt

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