MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
The Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Rush The Spirit of Radio Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Patti Jannetta Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Don Norman & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Debbie Myers Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Don Jewitt Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
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)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Bernie LaBarge Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Rush Limelight Moving Pictures
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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