MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Leonard Cohen The Partisan Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
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
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
France Joli Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Stompin' Connors Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Ian Tyson & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
George Olliver I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Les Tallmud Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Stompin' Connors Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Joni Mitchell Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way

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Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

Zweibrücken, West Germany → Stoney Creek → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

London→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

Thunder Bay, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Released

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Payola$ - No Stranger to Danger

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Underworld - Bound b/w Go Away

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Al Oster - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

Vanguard, Saskatchewan - Langley, British Columbia - Whitehorse, Yukon, 🇨🇦

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Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

Lucea, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Willie Dunn - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

Burlington, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Gerber, Alan

Tied On b/w Tied On

Gerber, Alan - Tied On bw Tied On

Radio ratings

1st Single promo.

Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

Sidewinders (1)

Modern Minds

The Deuce is Loose

Mama Let Him Play

Doucette, Jerry

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

Ocean

Put Your Hand in the Hand

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

I'm Alright

Williams, Bob

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