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
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
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)	02:40
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
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
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
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
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32

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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