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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Joli, France	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Hansen, Sue	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Leyrac, Monique	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Obomsawin, Alanis	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Daigle, Ted	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Moore, Yvonne	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Jones, Mike Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Thrasher, Willie	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Spencer, Eddie	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Tallmud, Les	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Murray, Anne	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
MacIsaac, Ashley	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Telfer, Jay	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
LaBarge, Bernie	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Saxton, Mary	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
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
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
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	02:00
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
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
Spencer, Eddie	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
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Thomas, Ian	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Obomsawin, Alanis	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Cornell, Jack	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Cockburn, Bruce	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Cornell, Jack	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Hemsworth, Wade	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Leyrac, Monique	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Joli, France	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Cohen, Leonard	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
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	04:32
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Cockburn, Bruce	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
LaBarge, Bernie	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
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

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

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Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

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Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

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Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

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Hometown Band - Flying

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Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

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A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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Trooper - Two For The Show

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Prism - ST

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Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

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Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

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Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

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Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

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