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
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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