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 

Donner, Blitzen, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen...

 Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer is the star of this year's Annual Annoying Christmas Compilation. 

27 versions of the same song, masterfully arranged in such a way it'll hardly get on your nerves...You'll have to hear it to believe it!

Tracks 

01 Ray Conniff - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
02 The Three Suns - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
03 Richard Benson & Orchestra - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
04 Fats Domino - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
05 Plas Johnson - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
06 Lena Horne - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
07 Ron Goodwin -  Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
08 Tiny Tim - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
09 Billy May - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer- Mambo
10 Arthur Lyman - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
11 Ira Ironstrings - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
12 Jackson 5 -  Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
13 Urbie Green & His All-Stars - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
14 Les Paul, Mary Ford - Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
15 The Jokers - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
16 The Crystals - Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
17 Jimmy McGriff - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
18 Ella Fitzgerald - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
19 Joe Loco Quintet - Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer
20 Hernando Hopkins & His Orchestra - Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer Cha Cha
21 The Cadillacs - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
22 The Chunk Williams Orchestra -  Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
23 The Spotnicks - Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer
24 Al Hirt - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
25 Bing Crosby - Rudolph The Red - Nosed Reindeer
26 Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reinder
27 Mrs. Miller - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Take 4)

You can find this gem in the Comment section. 

 

For more Holiday bliss, check out these previous compilations !

 

You can find them for a limited period of time, exclusively in 

THE ARCHIVE

So, from me to you all :

Happy Holidays! And may the future be peaceful, merry and bright for everyone!

MM

Let It Snow ! (But not really...)

 Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

But not in our neck of the woods. It's gonna be a green & wet Christmas in Belgium (as usual). 

So to evoke some Christmas Spirit, Monsieur Maurice has compiled another of his infamous Holiday Compilations. This time you can feast your ears on 25 versions of Let It Snow!

Tracks

01 Ace Cannon - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
02 Jorgen Ingmann - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
03 Blue Diamonds - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
04 John Klein - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
05 Doc Severinsen And The Tonight Show Orchestra – Let It Snow, Let It Snow
06 Randy van Horne Singers - Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
07 The Mexicali Brass - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
08 Camarata - Let It Snow
09 Doris Day - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
10 Ferrante & Teicher - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
11 Wayne Newton - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
12 Ira Ironstrings - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
13 The Three Suns  - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
14 Ella Fitzgerald - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
15 Rhoda Scott - Let It Snow
16 Pete Fountain - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
17 Ronnie Aldrich And His Two Pianos - Let It Snow, Let It Snow
18 Lena Horne- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
19 Lenny Dee - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
20 The Temptations - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
21 Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
22 Wayne King And His Orchestra- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
23 Ray Charles Singers - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
24 Richmond Brass Ensemble - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
25 Les Brown - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

And as promised, the Archive will be open as from NOW!

The Archive is OPEN

Among the other Monsieur Maurice goodies, all the previous Holiday Compilations will be available there for download, so you can bring cheer to your guests (or annoy the hell out of them...) with hour upon hour of the same Christmas classic! Enjoy.

 

Happy Holidays to you all !

& Peace... please

MM

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Have yourself a merry little Christmas...

 Let your heart be light.

Next year all our troubles, will be out of sight...

 

 

Let's hope and pray that this will be the case. 

Be gone war and pandemic and energy crisis...

 

So Monsieur Maurice prepared for you an all new Holiday Soundtrack.  This time a compilation of 2 of the most iconic Christmas songs of all time.  

Tracks

01 Carmen McRae - The Christmas Song
02 Kenny Burrell - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
03 Chet Baker & The Carmel Strings - The Christmas Song
04 Connie Francis - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
05 Henry Mancini - The Christmas Song
06 Perry Como - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
07 Peggy Lee - The Christmas Song
08 Ron Goodwin -  Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
09 The Three Suns - The Christmas Song
10 Ella Fitzgerald - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
11 Mel Tormé - The Christmas Song
12 The Lettermen - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
13 Tony Mottola - The Christmas Song
14 Wayne King - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
15 Lena Horne - The Christmas Song
16 Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
17 Bobby Byrne & His Orchestra - The Christmas Song
18 Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
19 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - The Christmas Song
20 Anita Kerr Singers - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
21 Arthur Lyman - Christmas Song
22 Carpenters - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
23 Esquivel - The Christmas Song

Happy Holidays to you all !

 

Exclusively for this time of year, the previous Christmas Compilations will be temporarily available.

Grab them while you can. 

 

MM's Stereo - Jingle Bells

MM's Stereo - Sleigh Ride Galore

MM's Stereo - Sleigh Ride

MM's Stereo - Winter Wonderland

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Jingle Jingle...

 HO, HO, HO, ... It's that time of the year !

To bring you all some Christmas Cheer, Monsieur Maurice has made another one of his infamous compilations. This time you'll be 'Jingeling All The Way' with 26 versions of the song Jingle Bells.

 Tracks

01 The Ray Charles Singers - Jingle Bells
02 Frank Petty Trio - Jingle Bells Mambo
03 Ella Fitzgerald - Jingle Bells
04 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Jingle Bells
05 Toots Thielemans & His Orchestra - Jingle Bells
06 The Ventures - Jingle Bells
07 Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass - Jingle Bells
08 Jimmy Smith - Jingle Bells
09 The Three Suns - Jingle Bells
10 Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells
11 Doc Severinsen - Jingle Bells
12 Enoch Light Orchestra & Chorus - Jingle Bells
13 The Spotnicks - Jingle Bells
14 Esquivel - Jingle Bells
15 Celia Cruz con La Sonora Matancera - Jingle Bells
16 Booker T & The MG's - Jingle Bells
17 The Soulful Strings - Jingle bells
18 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Jingle Bells
19 Wout Steenhuis & The Kontikis - Jingle Bells
20 José Feliciano - Jingle Bells
21 Wayne Newton - Jingle Bells
22 The Joe Loco Quintet - Jingle Bells
23 Pearl Bailey - Jingle Bells Cha Cha Cha
24 The Mexicali Brass - Jingle Bells
25 Barbra Streisand - Jingle Bells
26 Jackie Gleason - Jingle Bells

For your ultimate Christmas convenience I'll re-post the previous Holiday Compilations.

Wishing you all Happy Holidays and Enjoy!

MM

 

Winter Wonderland

Sleigh Ride

Sleigh Ride Galore

Happy Holidays !

 It's been a while since we had snow here in our part of the country. Global warming and all...

So here's my Gift to you all ... a Monsieur Maurice Holiday Compilation of the song 'Winter Wonderland'. 

Tracks :

01 Louis Armstrong - Winter Wonderland
02 Shirley Horn -  Winter Wonderland
03 Booker T & The MG's - Winter Wonderland
04 The Partridge Family - Winter Wonderland
05 Doc Severinsen - Winter Wonderland
06 Brenda Lee - Winter Wonderland
07 Laurie Johnson Orchestra - Winter Wonderland
08 Cyril Ornadel - Winter Wonderland
09 Hugo & Luigi - Winter Wonderland
10 Etta James - Winter Wonderland
11 Chet Baker - Winter Wonderland
12 Doris Day - Winter Wonderland
13 Camarata -  Winter Wonderland
14 Wayne Newton - Winter Wonderland
15 Jørgen Ingmann - Winter Wonderland
16 Aretha Franklin - Winter Wonderland
17 John Davidson - Winter Wonderland
18 The Three Suns - Winter Wonderland
19 The Andrews Sisters - Winter Wonderland
20 Arthur Lyman - Winter Wonderland
21 Lena Horne - Winter Wonderland
22 Ron Goodwin - Winter Wonderland
23 Ella Fitzgerald - Winter Wonderland
24 The Count Basie Orchestra - Winter Wonderland
25 Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass - Winter Wonderland
26 Peggy Lee - Winter Wonderland
27 Living Guitars - Winter Wonderland/Sleigh Ride
28 Pinky & Perky - Winter Wonderland

In the early days of this Blog, Monsieur Maurice made his first Holiday Compilations from the track 'Sleigh Ride'. What started out as kind of a joke, turned out to be a rather "enjoyable listening experience". The 'Sleigh Ride' Compilations have never been re-posted. So here they are, especially for you...

Enjoy! 

MM

 

Sleigh Ride

Sleigh Ride Galore

Ring Ding Dingeling Ding ...

Just one more to get you trough...

Tracklist:


01 Sleigh Ride - The Andrews Sisters
02 Sleigh Ride - Al Hirt
03 Sleigh Ride - Ferrante And Teicher
04 Sleigh Ride - George Melachrino & His Orchestra
05 Sleigh Ride - The Kaye Sisters
06 Sleigh Ride - Beegie Adair
07 Sleigh Ride - The Manhattan Transfer
08 Sleigh Ride - Glenn Miller Orchestra
09 Sleigh Ride - Lenny Dee
10 Sleigh Ride - Johnny Desmond with The Ray Charles Singers
11 Sleigh Ride - Mantovani Orchestra
12 Sleigh Ride - New Christy  Minstrels
13 Sleigh Ride - Jorgen Ingmann
14 Sleigh Ride - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
15 Sleigh Ride - The Partridge Family
16 Sleigh Ride - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
17 Sleigh Ride - Jo Stafford
18 Sleigh Ride - Freddy Martin & His Orchestra
19 Sleigh Ride - The Spectorettes
20 Sleigh Ride - Greg Hawkes

Happy Holidays !
Monsieur Maurice

Ring Ding Dingeling...

It's the most wonderful time of the year... so Monsieur Maurice offers this gift to all of you.
Originally meant as a family joke, Monsieur Maurice collected a whole bunch of different versions from the Christmas classic 'Sleigh Ride' and put them on a CD. Turns out this compilation is a rather enjoyable listen...
See (or rather 'listen') for yourself.
Happy Holidays !

Tracklist

01 Sleigh Ride - Doc Severinsen
02 Sleigh Ride - Ray Conniff
03 Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald
04 Sleigh Ride - The Ventures
05 Sleigh Ride - Johnny Mathis with Percy Faith and His Orchestra
06 Sleigh Ride - Jack Jones
07 Sleigh Ride - Ron Goodwin
08 Sleigh Ride - Lenore Paxton Trio
09 Sleigh Ride - Enoch Light Orchestra & Chorus
10 Sleigh Ride -The Soulful Strings
11 Sleigh Ride - Combustible Edison
12 Sleigh Ride - Carpenters
13 Sleigh Ride - Command's Guitars And Strings Feat.Al Casamenti
14 Sleigh Ride - Amy Grant
15 Sleigh Ride - The Three Suns
16 Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson
17 Sleigh Ride - Ferrante & Teicher and Les Baxter
18 Sleigh Ride - Francis Goya
19 Sleigh Ride - Spice Girls
20 Sleigh Ride - R2D2 & C3PO (Meco)