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"Venus" was issued in the Netherlands on 14 July 1969 as a single, [13] backed with "Hot Sand", on the Pink Elephant label, a label specially created for Shocking Blue by Dureco. The song initially peaked at number three on the Dutch Top 40 on 12 July 1969, and remained at that position for a total of five weeks.
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They were part of the Nederbeat movement in the Netherlands.The band had a string of hit songs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard" and "Venus", which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970.
"Venus" became Avalon's first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and it spent five weeks atop the survey. The song also reached No. 10 on the R&B chart.The lyrics detail a man's plea to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, to send him a girl to love and one who will love him as well.
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In 1967 he founded the band Shocking Blue, which had a No. 1 hit in 1969 with the single "Venus". His best-known compositions are Shocking Blue's most famous songs: "Venus", which was a US and UK No. 1 hit and was later covered by Bananarama and "Love Buzz", covered by Nirvana and released as their first single, and "Daemon Lover". [4]
NASA did not say why it chose to transmit a song into space again — just the second time after The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” was sent to the North Star, Polaris, in 2008.
The rapper’s song was transmitted at the speed of light — approximately 158 million miles — from Earth to Venus, which is Elliott’s “favorite planet.” Missy Elliott can now be heard in ...
[7] [8] His trumpet playing was also featured on some of his LP songs as well. As a teenager, he played with Bobby Rydell in Rocco and the Saints. In 1959, "Venus", which was a number one single for five consecutive weeks, and "Why" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. "Why" was the last number one hit of the 1950s.