MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Anne-Marie Murray The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Willie Dunn I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
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
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
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
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Debbie Myers Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Willie Thrasher Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
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
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
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)
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Craig Farraway After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Mike Woods Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed

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Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

South Nelson, Miramichi → Woodstock, New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

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

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

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Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - Moving Pictures

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - Hemispheres

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - Fly By Night

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

Zweibrücken, West Germany → Stoney Creek → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

London→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

Thunder Bay, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Released

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Paula Turnhbull - Rush fromt cover model

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (5)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (3)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (2)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (1)

Hemispheres

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (3)

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (2)

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