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
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
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
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
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
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
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
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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

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Payola$ - No Stranger to Danger

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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

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

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Underworld - Bound b/w Go Away

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Al Oster - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

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

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

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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