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
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
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
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
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)	02:43
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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