Come On ... Feel The Noize !!!!

Another install in the Eurocharts series. Let's time-travel to the year 1973. 

Here are the songs that were blasting trough the speakers in many European households. 

 

Tracks

 
 01 The Free Electric Band - Max Greger
02 Blockbuster - Bob Rowe
03 Radar Love - Miguel Ramos
04 Can The Can - Harald Winkler
05 Rain Rain Viens Viens - Ralph The Sax & The Lovelets
06 Les Vieux Maries - Paul Mauriat
07 Do You Love Me? - Caravelli
08 And I Love You So -  The Bruce Baxter Orchestra & Guitar 
09 Il Mio Canto Libero - Rafael Ferro
10 He - Fausto Papetti
11 Goodbye My Love, Goodbye - Paul Kuhn & The SFB Big Band
12 Welcome Home - Ray Martin Strings &  Orchestra
13 La Maladie d'Amour - Caravelli
14 Forever And Ever - Paul Mauriat
15 Hurt - Ray Ellis & His Orchestra
16 El Chico De La Armonica - El Sonido De Manuel Gas
17 Pazza Idea - Blue Marvin
18 Minutteo - Blue Marvin
19 Les Divorcés - Franck Pourcel
20 Mama Loo - Hugo Strasser
21 I'm The Leader Of The Gang - James Last
22 Cum On Feel The Noize - Frank Valdor & His Dimension Singers
23 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Moog Style
24 Get Down - Shegundo Galarza e a Sua Grande Orquestra
25 Capriccio Italien Op.45 (Bianca) - The Pink Mice
26 City Of New Orleans ('t is weer voorbij) - Chet Atkins
27 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Julius Wechter & The Baja Marimba Band

The new link van be found in the Comments under this Post... 

 Check out more Eurocharts compilations

EuroCharts 1970

EuroCharts 1971

EuroCharts 1972

 

 For more 70's Compilations and all the other stuff that Monsieur Maurice has to offer you can access 'The Archive'. 

'The Archive' is a list of all the previous published posts with updated Mega links. You can find a link to 'The Archive' in the sidebar of this Blog. 

Enjoy

MM 

Dancin' the worries away...

It's a cruel world we kids live in... So here are some more Popcorn Tunes to sweeten the blows. 

Tracks

01 Cruel World - Julie Grant
02 La Tanya - Jay Abbott
03 Don't Leave Me - Hank Parker
04 Break My Heart, Break - Judy Stone
05 And I Love Her - Enoch Light And His Orchestra
06 Who Will It Be Tomorrow - William Bell
07 She'll Be Gone - Betty O'Brien
08 Chiricahua - Jack Eubanks Orchestra
09 Another Sleepless Night - Bill Baker
10 Heartless Lover - Dick Baker Piano And Combo
11 Come Closer - Tiffany Michel
12 He’s So Fine - Duane Eddy
13 Summertime -Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra
14 Blow Out The Sun - Della Reese
15 Bury Me Deep - Chance Halladay
16 Fever - Earl Grant
17 Where Did I Go Wrong? - Marilyn Powell
18 Fried Okra - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
19 Don't Do This To Me - Cicero Blake
20 Abracadabra - Erma Franklin
21 (Se Fue Mi) Chachita - El Chicano
22 Country Slicker Joe - Young-Holt Unlimited
23 Sadaba - Johnny Williams
24 California Dreamin' - The Brass Ring
25 Dream Alone - Artie Garr 

 This is the fourth instalment of MM's Popcorn Party... adding the 2 versions 'en Français', and this is becoming quite the collection! A collections that keeps on growing, so keep an eye out for more!

MM's Popcorn Party en Français V1

MM's Popcorn Party en Français V2

MM's Popcorn Party V1

MM's Popcorn Party V2

MM's Popcorn Party V3

 The new link can be found in the 'Comments' as usual. For more goodness go check out 'The Archive', in the sidebar. 

Enjoy ! 

Dancing Into 2026 With Tunes From 1972

 Happy 2026 everybody.

We begin the new year with a blast from the past. Eurocharts 1972!

A compilation of the top 10 most popular songs in Belgium, the Netherlands,  France, UK, Germany and Italy. 

Tracks

01 Son Of My Father - Manuel Gas
02 I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing - Button Down Brass
03 Sacramento - Murray Campbell
04 Y Viva Espana - Geoff Love
05 Pop Corn - Armando Sciascia Orchestre
06 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Larry Page
07 One Way Wind  - Max Greger
08 Un Canto A Galicia - Combo Franky Scott
09 Questo Piccolo Grande Amore - Gianni Oddi Sax
10 Mother Of Mine - Paul Mauriat
11 Une Belle Histoire (Unestate Fa) - Johnny Sax
12 Without You - Murray Campbell
13 Hello-A  - Ladi Geisler
14 Metal Guru - Ladi Geisler
15 Kiss Me - Cliff Carpenter
16 Le Lundi Au Soleil - Georges Jouvin
17 Jesahel - Raymond Lefevre
18 Come What May (Apres Toi) - Tony Hatch
19 Imagine - Kiyoshi Sugimoto
20 Never Never Never (Grande Grande Grande) - Bottichelli Orchestra
21 My Reason - Paul Mauriat
22 Samson And Delilah - Franck Pourcel
23 Poppa Joe - T.W. Ardy
24 How Do You Do - Gianni Oddi
25 Mouldy Old Dough - Elektrik Cokernut
26 Love Theme From The Godfather - Hugo Montenegro 
27 Qui Saura - Paul Mauriat

 For more Eurocharts, check out these previous MM Compilations

EuroCharts 1970

EuroCharts 1971

 

And last but not least, to all of you a...

Let's hope it's a good one... without any fear.

Enjoy,

MM 

Here comes Santa Claus...

 It's that time again ! The annual highly anticipated  MonsieurMaurice Holidays Compilation is here.

This year it's 25 versions of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" to crawl into your brain like an (annoying?) earworm.

 

 

 Tracks

01 Esquivel - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
02 Al Hirt - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
03 Johnny Mercer - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
04 The Three Suns - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
05 John Klein - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
06 The Crystals - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
07 Alfred Hause - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
08 Brenda Lee - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
09 Les Paul - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
10 Artie Malvin - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
11 Ira Ironstrings - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
12 Lena Horne - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
13 Doc Severinsen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
14 Tony Bennett - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
15 Duke Pearson - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
16 The Beach Boys - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
17 Betty Glamann - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
18 The Miracles - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
19 The Soulful Strings - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
20 Wayne Newton - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
21 The Acapulco Brass - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
22 The McGuire Sisters - Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
23 Jimmy Smith - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
24 The Supremes - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
25 Tony Mottola - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 

 So to all of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

 

For the earlier Holiday Compilations you can access The Archive (in the sidebar). They will be exclusively available during the Holiday season.

 

Enjoy and Ho Ho Ho !

MM 

Holidays Are Coming....

 and Christmas Cheer is upon us...

So put on your dancing shoes and Cha Cha around the Christmas tree while putting up baubles and tinsels and twinkling lights.

 Tracks

01 Baby It's Cold Outside - Ted Heath & Edmundo Ros
02 Felicidades Cha Cha Cha - Bobby Roberts & His Orchestra
03 Donde Esta Santa Claus? - The Marty Gold Children's Chorus
04 Blanca Navidad - Sergio Pérez
05 Winter Wonderland Cha Cha - Tina Robin
06 Cha Cha All The Way - Capitol Studio Orchestra
07 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Columbia All Stars - 赤鼻のトナカイ
08 Christmas Cha-Cha Choo Choo Train - The Kent Harian Orchestra And Chorus
09 The Little Engine - The Eligibles
10 Cha Cha Cha Navidad - Chabelo
11 Ano Nuevo Cha Cha Cha - Bobby Roberts & His Orchestra
12 Christmas Kisses - The Bookends & Orchestra
13 I Saw Mommy Cha Cha Cha With You Know Who - Bonnie Sisters
14 Jingle Bells Cha Cha - Charlie Ace
15 Bianco Natale Cha Cha Cha - The Flippers
16 Mommy Give Me What You Give To Santa  - Josephine Premice
17 Snowfall Cha Cha - Billy May
18 Christmas Cha Cha Cha -The Merry Macs
19 The Christmas Song Cha Cha - Hugo Winterhalter
20 El Cha Cha Cha De La Navidad - Celia Cruz Con La Sonora Matancera
21 Lindo Año Nuevo - Billo's Caracas Boys
22 Santa Notte E Cha Cha Cha - The Flippers
23 The Christmas Song Cha Cha Cha - Santa's Pixie Helpers 

Christmas comes early this year for all you good behaved girls and boys, so Monsieur Maurice presents you not one, but two Christmas Compilations! Keep a look out, later this month, for the highly anticipated MM Holiday Compilation of 2025. 

Also 'The Archive' has got an update, and the Holiday Compilations are available now for a limited period of time.

Enjoy, 

and Cha Cha All The Way!

MM 

Wouldn't it be nice...

 To have a glimpse of Summer on these sad and drab, autumn days?

When I heard of the passing of Brian Wilson last June, immediately I began thinking of a MM compilation celebrating the music of the Beach Boys. So here it is... in memory of the genius of that one special Beach Boy.

  Tracks

01 Don’t Worry Baby - The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
02 I Can Hear Music - The Mark Wirtz Orchestra & Chorus
03 I Get Around - The Hollyridge Strings
04 Be True To Your School - Papa Doo Run Run
05 409 - The Rip Chords
06 Surfin' Safari - Les Fingers
07 Little Honda - The Mustangs
08 God Only Knows - Four King Cousins
09 Surfer Girl - Doc Severinsen
10 Disney Girls - Jack Jones
11 Friends - Gary Usher
12 Forever - American Spring
13 Warmth Of The Sun - Sounds Incorporated
14 Darlin' - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
15 Good Vibrations - Mike Hurst Orchestra
16 I Just Wasn't Made For These Times - Carmen McRae
17 Heroes And Villains - Don Costa
18 Wouldn’t It Be Nice - 101 Strings Orchestra & The Alshire Singers 
19 Fun, Fun, Fun - The Boomerangs
20 Help Me Rhonda - Takeshi Inomata & His West Liners
21 The Girls on the Beach - The Jay Five
22 In My Room - Sagittarius
23 Wendy - The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
24 California Girls - The Goldfingers
25 Hawaii - Rincon Surfside Band
26 Surfin' Usa - Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars

As always you can find the new link in the Comments.

Enjoy

MM 

It's Monster Surfing Time...

 It's the season of creaking floorboards, squeaking door hinges and stomping footsteps. MM presents his annual Halloween themed compilation dedicated to the greatest 'Monster' of them all... Frankenstein...

Tracks 

01 Frankenstein Stomp - Count Lorry & The Biters
02 Midnight Monsters Hop - Jack and Jim
03 My Baby’s Got A Crush On Frankenstein  - Soupy Sales
04 Frankie Frankenstein - Ivan
05 The Monster - Eddie Grady & The Commanders
06 The Cute Monster  - Buddy Collette Quintet
07 At the House of Frankenstein - Big Bee Kornegay
08 Frankenstein Rock - Eddie Thomas
09 The Monster - Bobby Please & The Pleasers
10 Monster Party - Bill Doggett
11 It's Monster Surfing Time .. - The Deadly Ones
12 The Monster Swim - Bobby Pickett And The Rolling Bones
13 Don't Meet Mr. Frankenstein - Carlos Casal Jr
14 The Purple Monster - Dean Hightower
15 She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man - Screaming "Lord" Sutch
16 Frankenstein's Den  - The Hollywood Flames
17 Frankenstein - King Horror
18 Bo Meets The Monster  - Bo Diddley
19 Monster Movie Ball  - Spike Jones
20 The Monster Hop - Bert Convy
21 Mr. Frankenstein - Peter & The Wolves
22 Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein, or Dracula - The Diamonds
23 Janie Made A Monster - The Fabulous Five
24 You Can Get Him Frankenstein - The Castle Kings 
25 Miss Frankenstein  - George Jackson
26 Frankenstein Twist - The Crystals
27 Melancholy Monster - Frankie Stein and His Ghouls

 So lets Rock and Roll, and shake it all over on your annual Halloween party ! You can find the link in the comments... Grab it, if you dare.. but be sure that you don't lose any significant body parts.....

mWahahaha

MM 

  

For more Halloween goodies be sure to check out these previous compilations

MM's Halloween II -Voodoo

MM's Halloween I