New book lists Canada's top 100 songs

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A new book by author and "music nerd" Bob Mersereau ventures into the risky territory of listing the top 100 Canadian singles of all time, with American Woman by The Guess Who at top spot.

1. The Guess Who — American Woman

2. Neil Young — Heart Of Gold

3. The Band — The Weight

4. Bryan Adams — Summer of '69

5. Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah

6. Steppenwolf — Born to Be Wild

7. Gordon Lightfoot — If You Could Read My Mind

8. Bachman Turner Overdrive — Takin' Care Of Business

9. Ian and Sylvia — Four Strong Winds

10. Anne Murray — Snowbird

11. Joni Mitchell — Big Yellow Taxi/Woodstock

12. Rush — Tom Sawyer

13. Blue Rodeo — Try

14. Tragically Hip — New Orleans Is Sinking

15. Gordon Lightfoot — The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

16. Leonard Cohen — Suzanne

17. Tom Cochrane — Life Is A Highway

18. Guess Who — These Eyes

19. Gordon Lightfoot — Sundown

20. Sloan — Underwhelmed

21. The Band — Up On Cripple Creek/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

22. Maestro Fresh Wes — Let Your Backbone Slide

23. The Diodes — Tired of Waking Up Tired

25. Rush — The Spirit of Radio

25. Crowbar — Oh What A Feeling

26. Rough Trade — High School Confidential

27. Martha and the Muffins — Echo Beach

28. Stampeders — Sweet City Woman

29. Arcade Fire — Wake Up

30. Barenaked Ladies — If I Had $1,000,000

31. Robert Charlebois — Lindberg

32. The Pursuit Of Happiness — I'm an Adult Now

33. Ugly Ducklings — Nothin'

34. Sloan — Coax Me

35. Rush — Closer To The Heart

36. Teenage Head — Picture My Face

37. Guess Who — Shakin' All Over

38. Five Man Electrical Band — Signs

39. Blue Rodeo — Lost Together

40. Ron Hynes — Sonny's Dream

41. Men Without Hats — The Safety Dance

42. Rheostatics — Claire

43. Lighthouse — One Fine Morning

44. A Foot In Coldwater — (Make Me Do) Anything You Want

45. Corey Hart — Sunglasses At Night

46. Loverboy — Working For The Weekend

47. Trooper — Raise A Little Hell

48. Parachute Club — Rise Up

49. Alannah Myles — Black Velvet

50. Terry Jacks — Seasons In The Sun

51. Malajube — Montreal —40C

52. Neil Young — Cinnamon Girl

53. Alanis Morissette — You Oughta Know

54. Feist — 1234

55. Arcade Fire — Rebellion (Lies)

56. k.d. lang — Constant Craving

57. Neil Young — Rockin' In The Free World

58. Michel Pagliaro — Lovin' You Ain't Easy

59. Bruce Cockburn — Lovers In A Dangerous Time

60. Tragically Hip — Bobcaygeon

61. Joni Mitchell — A Case of You/California

62. The Demics — New York City

63. Bryan Adams — (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

64. Tragically Hip — Ahead By A Century

65. Blue Rodeo — Five Days In May

66. Hank Snow — I'm Moving On

67. Harmonium — Pour un instant

68. Steppenwolf — Magic Carpet Ride

69. Sloan — Money City Maniacs

70. Celine Dion — My Heart Will Go On

71. k—os — Crabbuckit

72. The Kings —This Beat Goes on/Switchin' To Glide

73. Neil Young — Old Man/Needle and the Damage Done

74. Jean Leloup — 1990

75. Payola$ — Eyes Of A Stranger

76. Blue Rodeo — Hasn't Hit Me Yet

77. Bachman Turner Overdrive — You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

78. Bruce Cockburn — Wondering Where The Lions Are

79. April Wine — You Could Have Been A Lady

80. Teenage Head — Let's Shake/Somethin' On My Mind

81. Joni Mitchell — Help Me

82. Trooper — We're Here For A Good Time

83. Lighthouse — Sunny Days

84. Jean—Pierre Ferland — Le petit roi

85. Bryan Adams — Cuts Like A Knife

86. Stompin' Tom Connors — The Hockey Song

87. Tragically Hip — Wheat Kings

88. Gilles Vigneault — Mon pays

89. Spirit of The West — Home For A Rest

90. New Pornographers — Letter From An Occupant

91. Guess Who — No Time

92. Mashmakhan — As The Years Go By

93. Neil Young — Hey Hey My My

94. Paul Anka — Diana

95. Daniel Lanois — The Maker

96. The Spoons — Nova Heart

97. Beau Dommage — La complainte du phoque en Alaska

98. Ron Sexsmith — Secret Heart

99. Bryan Adams — Run To You

100. Wintersleep — Weighty Ghost

[steelmonkey]

Well...lots of good songs but they missed 1 by 90 spots...'No Time'...and the top twenty should be almost all Guess Who and Neil Young...Shakin All over beats No Sugar Tonite or Saskatoon ?

[nonrabbit]

I only found out recently that Leonard Cohen was Canadian. duh
completely forgot about Anne Murray and her snowbird and who could forget Men Without Hats*





* Tull connection

Ian was on the single "On Tuesday"
starts at 5.27 (to avoid the pain I've just gone through with the first song)

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"Randy Bachman emerges as the "king of the Canadian single" in the new book The Top 100 Canadian Singles.
A followup to Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Albums, the list is sure to provoke debate among music lovers."

Read more: www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/09/30/top-canadian-singles.html#ixzz11DnXkOdm

“I thought of singles because singles are what I grew up with and I wondered are singles dead? Does anybody still buy singles?" he said.

"Then I realized with downloads, everything's a single now. People don't buy albums any more — they go online and buy the songs they like."

[maddogfagin]

In the late sixties, I worked with a Canadian national who introduced me to many Canadian artists and mentioned in conversation that Canadian radio stations had to play a certain percentage of "home grown" artists and their music per hour. Does this still happen?

He used to refer to CHUM in Toronto as being his favourite music station.

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CHUM was good for top hits - Q107 was good for Tull and album rock.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content


www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/cultural_policies/canadian_content_rules.cfm
Canadian Content Rules (Cancon)

What is Cancon?

Canadian broadcasting policy is defined by Section 3 of the Broadcasting Act, which stipulates that:

* radio frequencies are public property

* broadcast programming provides a public service essential to national identity and cultural sovereignty

* the Canadian broadcasting system should provide a wide range of programming that reflects Canadian attitudes, opinions, ideas, values and artistic creativity, by displaying Canadian talent in entertainment programming

To give effect to this policy, Canada's broadcasting regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), established a system of "quotas" to regulate the amount of Canadian program content broadcast in Canada. The resulting Canadian content rules, which came to be known as "Cancon," were devised to stimulate Canada's cultural production by ensuring greater exposure for Canadian artists in Canada's marketplaces.

Cancon Rules

Cancon rules apply to radio, television and specialty broadcasting.

Radio

To qualify as "Canadian content," music must generally fulfill at least two of the following conditions
(the MAPL system):

M (music) - the music is composed entirely by a Canadian.

A (artist) - the music and/or the lyrics are performed principally by a Canadian.

P (production) - the musical selection consists of a live performance that is (i) recorded wholly in Canada, or (ii) performed wholly in Canada and broadcast live in Canada.

L (lyrics) - the lyrics are written entirely by a Canadian.

Under the Commercial Radio Policy, 35 per cent of all music aired each week on all AM and FM stations must be Canadian. In addition, 35 per cent of music broadcast between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday must consist of Canadian content.

French-language radio stations are required to ensure that 65 per cent of the vocal music they broadcast each week, and 55 per cent of vocal music broadcast between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, is in the French language.

Seven per cent of music aired on ethnic radio stations each week must be Canadian.

Television

Private television licensees generally must achieve a yearly Canadian content level of at least 60 per cent overall, measured over the course of the entire broadcast day, and at least 50 per cent between 6 p.m. and midnight.

The CBC, as the national broadcaster, must ensure that at least 60 per cent of its program schedule between 6 a.m. and midnight consists of Canadian productions. It must maintain the 60 per cent level over the course of the broadcast day.

Evaluation of Canadian content in a television program is based on the following criteria: whether its producer and key creative personnel are Canadian; the amounts paid to Canadians for services provided to make the program; and amounts spent in Canada on lab processing.

Broadcasters may also claim a 150 per cent time credit for Canadian dramas which have a full Canadian complement in key creative roles, and which meet certain scheduling criteria.

Pay-TV, Specialty and Pay-per-view

Pay-TV, specialty and pay-per-view services have varying Canadian content requirements set by the CRTC as their condition of license. The requirements depend on a number of factors, including the nature of the service and the types and availability of programming offered. The requirements are reviewed periodically by the CRTC at license renewal time.

Co-production Treaties

Canada has signed numerous co-production treaties with other countries, particularly with France, which allow Canada to share production costs in film, video and television production ventures.

To qualify as "Canadian" under Cancon rules, a Canadian production company must retain a financial participation position of at least 50 per cent, and a 50 per cent share of the profits. These include all ventures with co-producers of a foreign country that does not have a film or television production treaty with Canada. There is some variation in criteria for co-ventures involving a co-producer from a Commonwealth or French-speaking country, or a country with which Canada has a film or television production treaty.

[steelmonkey]

Whoa...what a soviet wallop of rules and atom-splitting. I'll never forget listening to baseball from Montreal when the protection of french language was at its hysterical peak ( Arret signs while France is full of Stop signs) ....outfielders described as 'Jardinierres' ( Gardners ?) sounded rather pansy for sport..