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
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
The Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Craig Farraway After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
The Fringe Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
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)
Rush The Spirit of Radio Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
George Olliver Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
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)
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Alden Diehl Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
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
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man

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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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