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
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Ian Tyson & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
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
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
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
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Ashley MacIsaac	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
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
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
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
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
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57

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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