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
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
The Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
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 Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
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
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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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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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)

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