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

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
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Doucette, Jerry Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Obomsawin, Alanis Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Thomas, Ian Painted Ladies ST
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Connors, Stompin' Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

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