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
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
LaBarge, Bernie	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Maciag, Robert	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	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Leyrac, Monique	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Daigle, Ted	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Cornell, Jack	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Gerber, Alan	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Mitchell, Joni	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Perpall, Pierre	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Murray, Anne	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Mitchell, Joni	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Hus, Tim	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Hawkins, Ronnie	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Farraway, Craig	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Thrasher, Willie	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Reaction, The	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Jannetta, Patti	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Hansen, Sue	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	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
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Saxton, Mary	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Hemsworth, Wade	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
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
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Little, Russ	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46

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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