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
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
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
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39

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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