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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Murray, Anne-Marie	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Hodgins, Marie	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
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
Obomsawin, Alanis	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Hansen, Sue	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Murray, Anne	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Rock, Jenny	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Obomsawin, Alanis	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Obomsawin, Alanis	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Doucette, Jerry	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Baumber, Ron	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Cockburn, Bruce	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Olliver, George	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Kozak, Joe	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Elan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Norman, Don & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Hawkins, Ronnie	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Cohen, Leonard	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Hemsworth, Wade	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Leyrac, Monique	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Reaction, The	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Baumber, Ron	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Farraway, Craig	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Thrasher, Willie	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Ryan, Clint	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
MacIsaac, Ashley	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Damron, Dick	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Cockburn, Bruce	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Hodgins, Marie	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
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
Murray, Anne	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Mitchell, Joni	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Elan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Mitchell, Joni	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Cockburn, Bruce	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Little, Russ	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

FEATURED

Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

FEATURED

Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

FEATURED

Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

FEATURED

Reaction, The - East End Rockers

FEATURED

Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

FEATURED

Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

FEATURED

Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

FEATURED

Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

FEATURED

Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

FEATURED

Thomas, Ian - The Runner

FEATURED

Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

FEATURED

Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

FEATURED

Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

FEATURED

St. Germain, Ray - ST

FEATURED

Hometown Band - Flying

FEATURED

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

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

FEATURED

A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

FEATURED

49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

FEATURED

Trooper - Two For The Show

FEATURED

Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

FEATURED

Prism - ST

FEATURED

Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

FEATURED

Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

FEATURED

Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

FEATURED

Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

Tracks

Comments