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
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Ryan, Clint	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Hodgins, Marie	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Damron, Dick	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Leyrac, Monique	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Jannetta, Patti	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Thomas, Ian	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Little, Russ	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Baumber, Ron	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Cockburn, Bruce	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Olliver, George	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Dunn, Willie	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Reaction, The	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Little, Russ	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Garnett, Gale	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Jewitt, Don	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Rock, Jenny	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Murray, Anne	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
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
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Farraway, Craig	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Cornell, Jack	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Joli, France	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
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
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
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
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Saxton, Mary	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Cockburn, Bruce	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Leyrac, Monique	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Jackson, Shawne	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Mitchell, Joni	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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

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

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

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

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

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

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

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

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

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

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Hometown Band - Flying

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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

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

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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Trooper - Two For The Show

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Prism - ST

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

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

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

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

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