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.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Stompin' Connors Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
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	04:43
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Kings - Switchin'

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Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

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Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

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Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Rush - Moving Pictures

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Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

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Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

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Rush - Hemispheres

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

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Rush - Fly By Night

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Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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