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
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Mike Woods Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Ian Thomas Hold On The Runner
Stompin' Connors Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
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)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Monique Leyrac Mon pays Mon pays
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Mary Saxton Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Stompin' Connors Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Bruce Cockburn Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Don Norman & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ian Thomas Long Long Way Long Long Way
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
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
k.d. lang Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

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

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

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

Paula Turnhbull - Rush fromt cover model

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (5)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (3)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (2)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (1)

Hemispheres

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (3)

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (2)

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