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
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
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)	02:28
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
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
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

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The Bed Time Story - Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

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

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The Hometown Band - Flying

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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

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

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