MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Lisa Lougheed Run With Us Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
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)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Willie Thrasher Spirit Child Spirit Child
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Bernie LaBarge Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
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
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
The Fringe Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Stompin' Tom Connors Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Ian Thomas Long Long Way Long Long Way
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
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
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

Burlington, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - ST

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Gruesomes - Hey!

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Bed Time Story - Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

Nelson, British Columbia → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Etobicoke, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

South Nelson, Miramichi → Woodstock, New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - Moving Pictures

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Hemispheres

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Fly By Night

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

Zweibrücken, West Germany → Stoney Creek → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

London→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bob Williams - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

The Deuce is Loose

Mama Let Him Play

Teenage Head (8)

Teenage Head (7)

Teenage Head (6)

Teenage Head (5)

Teenage Head (4)

Teenage Head (3)

Teenage Head (2)

Teenage Head (1)

After the Institution b/w My Job

SPOONS (14)

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SPOONS (12)

SPOONS (10)

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