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
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
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
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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