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
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
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
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Stompin' Connors Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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