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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Garnett, Gale	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Williams, Rod & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Joli, France	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Dunn, Willie	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Myers, Debbie	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Hodgins, Marie	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Jannetta, Patti	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Thomas, Ian	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Woods, Mike	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Basso, Guido	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Perpall, Pierre	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Obomsawin, Alanis	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Obomsawin, Alanis	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Reaction, The	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Thrasher, Willie	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Hodgins, Marie	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Cohen, Leonard	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Joli, France	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Thomas, Ian	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Thomas, Ian	Pilot	Glider	05:11
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
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Thomas, Ian	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Olliver, George	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Joli, France	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Thrasher, Willie	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Saxton, Mary	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Ryan, Clint	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Damron, Dick	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Cornell, Jack	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Farraway, Craig	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

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Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

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Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

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

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

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Hometown Band - Flying

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Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

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A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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Trooper - Two For The Show

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Prism - ST

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Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

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Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

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Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

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Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

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