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
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
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
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
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
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
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
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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

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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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