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
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
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
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
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
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
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
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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