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
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
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	03:00
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
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
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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

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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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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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