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
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
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)	05:25
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
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
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
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
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
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
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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