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
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
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)
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Sue Hansen Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
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)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
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)
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
The Fringe Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Patti Jannetta Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
The Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
George Olliver I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
222's La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
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)
Alan Gerber Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt

FEATURED

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

Etobicoke, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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

FEATURED

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

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

FEATURED

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - Moving Pictures

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Hemispheres

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Fly By Night

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

Zweibrücken, West Germany → Stoney Creek → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

London→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bob Williams - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

Thunder Bay, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Released

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

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)

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