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

Reaction

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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Cockburn, Bruce Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Jones, Mike Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
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)
Little, Russ I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
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)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)

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