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
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
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)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Norman, Don & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
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)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Copperpenny Wine Song 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
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs

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