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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
The Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
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
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
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

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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