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
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
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
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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