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
Olliver, George	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Damron, Dick	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Little, Russ	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Mitchell, Joni	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Williams, Bob	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Cornell, Jack	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Murray, Anne	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Williams, Rod & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Murray, Anne	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Basso, Guido	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
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
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
McManus, Terry	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Daigle, Ted	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Tallmud, Les	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Thrasher, Willie	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Spencer, Eddie	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Cockburn, Bruce	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Reaction, The	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Telfer, Jay	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Leyrac, Monique	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Saxton, Mary	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
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
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Cornell, Jack	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Thrasher, Willie	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Baumber, Ron	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Moore, Yvonne	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Basso, Guido	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Obomsawin, Alanis	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Farraway, Craig	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Cockburn, Bruce	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Telfer, Jay	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Thrasher, Willie	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Leyrac, Monique	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Gayle, Otis	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Jones, Mike Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Ryan, Clint	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49

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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