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
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
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
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
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
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
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
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
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
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
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33

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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