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
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
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
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46

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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