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
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Joli, France Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Olliver, George I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Basso, Guido Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Woods, Mike Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming 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
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Gayle, Otis Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Hawkins, Ronnie Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Etidlouie, Etulu Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Phollop Willing P.A. Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Joli, France Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

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