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
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
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
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
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
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
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
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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