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
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
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
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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