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
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
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
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
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
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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

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

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

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Diodes - Released

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

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

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

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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