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
Cockburn, Bruce If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
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)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Tallmud, Les Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Leyrac, Monique Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
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)
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Thrasher, Willie Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Joli, France Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Ryan, Clint It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Obomsawin, Alanis Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Daigle, Ted No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
lang, k.d. High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Obomsawin, Alanis NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In

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