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)

Witness ad

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
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Fringe, The Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
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)
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Connors, Stompin' Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays

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