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
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
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
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
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
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
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
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

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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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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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