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
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Ian Tyson & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
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
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
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
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
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
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
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)	02:42
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
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

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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