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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Cohen, Leonard	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Spencer, Eddie	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)	02:48
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Rock, Jenny	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Connors, Stompin' Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Williams, Rod & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Hodgins, Marie	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Reaction, The	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Hus, Tim	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Doucette, Jerry	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Little, Russ	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Basso, Guido	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Fringe, The	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Olliver, George	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Damron, Dick	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Baumber, Ron	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Little, Russ	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Etidlouie, Etulu	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Thomas, Ian	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Reaction, The	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Mitchell, Joni	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Daigle, Ted	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
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
Damron, Dick	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Tallmud, Les	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Oster, Al	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

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Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

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Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

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Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

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

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

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Hometown Band - Flying

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Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

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A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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Trooper - Two For The Show

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Prism - ST

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Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

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Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

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Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

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Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

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