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
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Ronnie Hawkins Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Boys Brigade The Passion of Love ST
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
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)
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
The 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
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
George Olliver I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Ian Thomas Long Long Way Long Long Way
Patti Jannetta Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Eddie Spencer If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Terry McManus Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Monique Leyrac Mon pays Mon pays
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Ian Thomas Hold On The Runner
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
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)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Len Steal My Sunshine You Can't Stop the Bum Rush
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
The Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
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)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Les Tallmud Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Craig Farraway After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
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)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
George Olliver Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors

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

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

Burlington, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Boys Brigade - ST

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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The Bed Time Story - Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

Nelson, British Columbia → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Etobicoke, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

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Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

South Nelson, Miramichi → Woodstock, New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

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

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - Moving Pictures

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - Hemispheres

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - Fly By Night

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Zweibrücken, West Germany → Stoney Creek → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

C'est la vie

Maurice & the Cliches

Maurice & the Cliches

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie LABEL 02

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie LABEL 01

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie INSERT SIDE 02

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie INSERT SIDE 01

Maurice & The Cliches - Cest la vie BACK

Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats

bureaucrats 737

bureaucrats 730

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bureaucrats 726

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Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats / Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)

The Bureaucrats / Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)

45-Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Streudel Man VINYL 02

45-Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Streudel Man VINYL 01

45-Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Streudel Man BACK

Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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