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
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
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	02:25
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
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)	02:48
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Kings - Switchin'

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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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