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
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Stompin' Tom Connors I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
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)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Clint Ryan Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
The Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Shawne Jackson Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Rush Tom Sawyer Moving Pictures
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
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)
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Ian Thomas Painted Ladies ST
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

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

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