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
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
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
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
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
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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