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
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
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
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
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
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17

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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