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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
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
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
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
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46

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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