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
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
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)	02:41
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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

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

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

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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

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

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The Hometown Band - Flying

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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

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

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