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

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
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Murray, Anne Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ryan, Clint Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Gerber, Alan Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Myers, Debbie Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Perpall, Pierre World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
St. Germain, Ray Metis ST
Doucette, Jerry Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Leyrac, Monique L'hiver Mon pays
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
April Wine Say Hello Harder Faster
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Leyrac, Monique Mon pays Mon pays
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Thomas, Ian Hold On The Runner
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401

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