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
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
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
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
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
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
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
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32

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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