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
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
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
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
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
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
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

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The Hometown Band - Flying

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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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