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
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Willie Thrasher Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Joni Mitchell Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Marie Hodgins Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
The Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Jay Telfer Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Leonard Cohen The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Ray St. Germain Metis ST
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Rush Tom Sawyer Moving Pictures
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
The Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
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)
Terry McManus Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
The Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
The Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Charlie Russell The Bricklin The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
k.d. lang Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

Bolton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

Nelson, British Columbia → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

Burlington, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Boys Brigade - ST

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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The Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Etobicoke, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

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Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

South Nelson, Miramichi → Woodstock, New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

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Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - Moving Pictures

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - Hemispheres

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

Tim Hus (2)

Tim Hus (1)

Tim Hus (7)

Tim Hus (6)

Tim Hus (5)

Tim Hus (4)

Huskies & Huskvarnas

The Munks

The Munks

The Munks

Freedom North

Freedom North

Freedom North

Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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

You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

C'est la vie

Maurice & the Cliches

Maurice & the Cliches

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie LABEL 02

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie LABEL 01

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie INSERT SIDE 02

Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie INSERT SIDE 01

Maurice & The Cliches - Cest la vie BACK

Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats

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