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
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
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
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
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
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Ian Tyson & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
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
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
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
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18

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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