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
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
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
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
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
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
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
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

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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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