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
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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