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
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
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
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
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
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
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

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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