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
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
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)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
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
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
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
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté

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