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
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
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
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
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
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
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
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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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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