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 Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
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
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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