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
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
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
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
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
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
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
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Joni Mitchell	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
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
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
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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