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
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Stompin' Connors Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
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)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Alanis Obomsawin Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
k.d. lang Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
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
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
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
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Stompin' Connors Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
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
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Willie Dunn I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Ray St. Germain Metis ST
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Debbie Myers Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
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)
Sue Hansen Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Alan Gerber Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Anne-Marie Murray The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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

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

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

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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, 🇨🇦

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

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

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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, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

London→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Thunder Bay, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Released

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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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