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
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
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	03:00
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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