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
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
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
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
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
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Pierre Perpall World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Ray St. Germain Metis ST
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Rush Tom Sawyer Moving Pictures
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
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)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Alden Diehl Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
The Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Rush The Spirit of Radio Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Willie Dunn I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
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)
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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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

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