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
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Ronnie Hawkins Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Terry McManus Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Monique Leyrac Mon pays Mon pays
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Alanis Obomsawin Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
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)
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Shawne Jackson Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Charlie Russell The Bricklin The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Anne Murray Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Jim Ashby Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
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)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper

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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

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

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