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
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
k.d. lang Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Anne Murray Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Ronnie Hawkins Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
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)
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
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)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
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
Monique Leyrac Mon pays Mon pays
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
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)
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Alanis Obomsawin Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Tim Hus Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Stompin' Connors Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Mike Woods Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Clint Ryan Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt

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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