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
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
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
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
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)	02:40
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
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
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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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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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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