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
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
The Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
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
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
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	04:46
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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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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