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
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
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)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
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)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
McManus, Terry Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
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
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST

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