MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Tim Hus Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ronnie Hawkins Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Debbie Myers Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
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
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
The Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Alanis Obomsawin Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Don Norman & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
The Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Don Jewitt Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Leonard Cohen The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Anne Murray Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Mike Woods Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Lisa Lougheed Run With Us Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

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

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

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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