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
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
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
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Joni Mitchell	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
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
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
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42

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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