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
The Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
The 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
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
The Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
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
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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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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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

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