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
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
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)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
LaBarge, Bernie Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
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)
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Spencer, Eddie If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Gayle, Otis We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Kings Switchin` Switchin'

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