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

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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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Murray, Anne I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Cohen, Leonard The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Leloup, Jean L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Thomas, Ian The Runner The Runner
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Thrasher, Willie Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Hawkins, Ronnie Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
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)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Daigle, Ted Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Hodgins, Marie Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

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