I vagualy remember an Interview where Oprah Winfrey interviewed Nelson Mandela and she asked him what would he like to say to Americans and one of the things he suggested was "Humility". I am glad to see you are still trying to get that message across. I travelled around the USA mostly Southern States on Greyhound buses in 1981 and the lack of knowledge of the rest of humanity and mountains of hubris meant there wasn't much in the way of humility. But Hispanic and African Americans were more humble as their sense of community gave them a better perspective on what strengthens a community. Back in 1981 I also felt Apartheid was still prevalent in the USA even though the Whites Only Signs weren't around.
I was born in 1958 and I would never want to swap a period in time to have lived. The best music to have ever been produced..50s and 60s and 70s. I remember rocking to this when it came out.
Guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen, who wrote this song, stated in 2019 (50 years after the song) without going to much into detail that he still makes tons of euros a year, just from the royalties of this one song.
Bananarama covered the song in the 80s. It is used a lot in commercials, namely the Venus brand of feminine shaving products. This band is called Shocking Blue.
The first time I heard this song I was caught by that unique voice, the guitar, and then I fell in love with the girl when I saw her for the first time. This song must be among the best songs
Your parents must of had you at an an old age lol . I was born in 76 and my parents listened to this . I'd recommend the complete album , some songs are almost heavy in nature almost punk like rifts. Listen to " Love Buzz" Nirvana made a cover of it.
They weren't baby boomers then , baby boomers were born directly after WW2. Your parents would of grown up in the 50's and be teens in the 60's. For example I'm 45 , I'm considered generation X , for being a teen in the early 90's .....and yes life really flies by , every year seems to go by faster.
Anybody remember those K-Tel music albums in the 60s/70s? I remember having one with this song on it, played the **** out of it. I think I still have about 10-15 of those albums somewhere. Jamel - I suggest the Box Tops and the Grass Roots from around the same time.
I've been digitizing mine for a while now. Been pulling out many double- and triple-copies of those LPs. It's fun to see record dealers' faces when they get a CD for a "tip". Some were happy to take a few CDs if they had given me a good deal on my shopping.
@@cjpew Got it right here (ya made me look lol), "24 Electrifying Hits" on "Syndicate Product" label (catalogue number SH 930). Very soon became K-tel. If you do a Google search, put in "24 Electrifying Hits (Syndicate SH 930)" Hopefully you'd get to see the cover and song list again
Yeah, I think it was Gillette that has a line of razors called Venus and they used this song. There was also a cover in the 1980s by Bananarama. I like this original version better though.
I think I was 12. Maybe 1970. For my birthday my parents got me a phonograph player and two 45 records. One was The Guess Who "No Time" and the other this one. My first records ever. Have about 3,000 lps now...maybe 100 45 records. Always highly enjoyed collecting LP records...definitely more than CDs.
same...i have one of the first 1500 UK Parlaphone pressings of Sgt. Pepper. People should really learn what dead wax nomenclature means...especially the guy that sold it to me for 60 bucks. i got this single, and Let it Be w/You Know My Name (Look up the Number) in 70.
Thank you for reminding me of this lost song! OMG I had forgotten, but remember it so vividly now. I was reading The Day Kennedy Was Shot and this song was playing on the radio. It stuck.
Fun Fact: Shocking Blue was a Dutch band, and she, Mariska Veres, couldn't speak English. Someone wrote the lyrics out for her phonetically, and she sang it straight, not even knowing what the lyrics said.
I've doubted the veracity of that claim. She would have had to have done that for many years, effectively making a career of that tactic. Listen to this from '64: ua-cam.com/video/-GowlFJWYXc/v-deo.html
Her name was Mariska Veres. In 1975, she recorded a song called "Take Me High". Find it, it's on UA-cam, a great song you all should hear. She passed away in 2006 (Age 59, cancer). Love her voice.
Shocking Blue is underrated and most people don't have any idea that they are the original artist of this song. You may also want to check out Send Me A Postcard, Shocking You and Inkpot... these are 3 more of their songs that are often overlooked and under appreciated.
Actually the original tune was written in 1963 by The Big Three” called “The Banjo Song”. They didn’t sue because they had lifted it from the old southern folk song “O Susannah”
@@johnnyfever3832 Thanks for providing some additional information. Yes, the Venus music was "inspired" (taken) from the "The Banjo Song", but Robbie van Leeuwen of Shocking Blue wrote new lyrics and Shocking Blue are recognized as the original artist of the song Venus.
@@razzberrylogic don’t get me wrong. It’s one of my favorite songs of the era. Everybody “borrowed” tunes at that time ( and still do), and this one was beautifully done.
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They had a number of psychedelic rock hits throughout the counterculture movement during the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard", "Love Buzz", and "Venus," the last of which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970. The band sold 13.5 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974
Way back machine on Professor Peabody. While the cover was pretty decent. This one is still better. Edgier, the cover was over-produced. And Mariska Veres had a seriously nice voice Bananarama covered it
Shocking Blue were the original performers of the song. Guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen, now 76, wrote it. The song was so successful that he can live on the royalties of that song alone. The Netherlands had a lot of great and internationally succesful bands in the late sixties and early seventies. Prime examples being "Radar Love" by Golden Earring and "Russian Spy and I" by The Hunters, featuring guitar virtuoso Jan Akkerman. It makes me proud to be Dutch.
Yes, they were dutch... there were lots of very good dutch bands in the 60s. Some think that Holland had the best pop/rock scene during the 60s in Europe after the British
The band was Shocking Blue and the song is "Venus" which they recorded and had a huge international hit with back in 1968. Shocking Blue was a Dutch Pop/Rock band. Funnily enough, the cover version which was by British Dance/Pop band Bananarama was in 1986. 🙂
They did some great songs, "Love Buzz" one of my favs. "Never Marry a Railroad Man" has a couple of great videos. And their song, "Mighty Joe" (my other favorite) was actually a minor hit for them.
@goatboy lmao omg….I guess I thought I was the only one who heard it from that movie. First time I ever heard it was when I was like 5 from that movie 😂😂😂
The guitar player of shocking blue (Robbie van Leeuwen) also wrote 'love buzz' which Nirvana covered and put on their 'bleach' album. Robbie also played mandoline in the band Galaxy-Lin who had a hit with the song 'long hot summer'
Dutch band and also the original of the song Venus, from 1969. Im also pretty sure that its not the LA Zoo, most likely the Zoo in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands).
2021 12 31, remembering Shocking Blue - Venus as the athem for my 70's time frame when I was born. But seeing you reacting to this theme just sparked my day. Woooha.
I love these early 70's BOMBSHELLS!!!! The guitarist Van Leeuwen wrote this song. And when he was writing he misspelled Goddess, he spelled it: Goddness on the mountaintop. And that is the exact way the sexy leader Mariska pronounced. Shocking Blue were from the Netherlands and spoke very little English.
Yay! And you look in better spirits! 💛Suggest “Love Buzz” by Shocking Blue (or Nirvana’s 1988 cover of “Love Buzz” on their first album, Bleach, which rules). “Send Me a Postcard” is good, too.
This song starts the "Stars on 45 Medley" a hit in the 70s. Do a reaction to the Stars on 45 Medley for a short trip mostly songs done by the Beatles from the 60s. Thanks
I’ve heard Stars on 45 myself! Early 80s! I think on 8 track cartridge or cassette! And it was i think the Beatles medley!! Memories from that one!! You gotta react to that, Meco’s Empire Strikes Back Disco, Electric Boogie, Cha Cha Slide, The Hustle, Le Freak, Macarena and Living La Vida Loca
This song was popular when I was in Jr. high in the 60's.. This girl always called me Venus after this song.. I guess I had it back then and I still have it at 65..
@@rafaelorantes7185 ~ I believe it was great. It was different, but without losing the original composition. Anyone can record a cover just like the original recording. It takes creativity to redo it, and make it their own at the same time...
I agree. I love both versions, both went #1. Bananarama’s version was an 80’s dance club interpretation of the original. The same and yet different. I can listen to either over and over.
The band was highly influential to Nirvana--their first single was a cover of Love Buzz. (edit: their self-titled LP is probably sought out more often now)
A goddess on a mountain top Was burning like a silver flame The summit of beauty and love And Venus was her name She's got it Yeah, baby, she's got it Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire, at your desire Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire, at your desire Her weapons were her crystal eyes Making every man mad Black as the dark night she was Got what no one else had, whoa! She's got it Yeah, baby, she's got it Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire, at your desire Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire, at your desire She's got it Yeah, baby, she's got it Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire, at your desire Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire, at your desire
I was just Thinking about this song!!!! then I put on UA-cam and What do I see? I LOVED THIS SONG WHEN IT 1ST CAME OUT ! We played it ALL DAY THE TIME! it has been "covered"more than once, but I'm "a musical Snob"! No one can "Touch Shocking Blue"! Stay Safe ❤️ Keep Well Everyone!
They also have a really cool, but far less well known song called "Love Buzz", which, surprising as it might be, Nirvana actually covered and released as the A side of their first single in 1988. Both versions are good, but unsurprisingly fairly distinctive.
Robbie van Leeuwen was the primary songwriter of the group and he was a great guitar player. (He's also the only member from that particular lineup that's still living.) He did admit he took that opening guitar part from "Pin Ball Wizard". But its such a cool guitar opening. One of those guitar parts that many beginning guitar players love to learn. Its just fun to play!
I grew up with the Bananarama version from the 80s, a UK band. And it has been used in many commercials. This is my first time seeing and hearing the original. What a brilliant song.
Bananarama did a cover and a hit on this. Considered as one hit wonder in the US, Shocking Blue scored several hits in Europe, "Never Marry A Railroad Man", "Send Me A Postcard", "Blossom Lady" and others. Guitarist Robbie Van Leeuwen was the composer, Mariska Verees providing the voice. Them plus bassist Claasje Van Der Val and drummer Cor (nelius) Van Der Beek formed the classic line-up. Due to constant international touring, the line-up literally ran out of steam by 1971 and the band split 1974.
Oh, my dear Lord. I have listened to this song since the end of the 1960s, and until 30 seconds ago I thought that was a guy singing. Mind - BLOWN! Let the music play.... regardless of who is holding the mic.
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Jamal, it's one of the most covered songs ever....
Thank you for being a good human being in a world thats forgotten how or what that is
I vagualy remember an Interview where Oprah Winfrey interviewed Nelson Mandela and she asked him what would he like to say to Americans and one of the things he suggested was "Humility". I am glad to see you are still trying to get that message across. I travelled around the USA mostly Southern States on Greyhound buses in 1981 and the lack of knowledge of the rest of humanity and mountains of hubris meant there wasn't much in the way of humility. But Hispanic and African Americans were more humble as their sense of community gave them a better perspective on what strengthens a community. Back in 1981 I also felt Apartheid was still prevalent in the USA even though the Whites Only Signs weren't around.
The song was used for a commercial for womens razors . Probably where you heard it .
This was a number 1 hit TWICE - first for Shocking Blue, and then for Bananarama 17 years later.
Check out the official bananarama video !
Banarama's cover is good - I like Shocking Blue the best though.
Shocking Blue version is best
@@jerryhorne7547 Shocking Blue has a lot of good songs! : )
@@soterioncoil2163 Yeah they do... excellent band... but good luck finding them.
I was born in 1958 and I would never want to swap a period in time to have lived. The best music to have ever been produced..50s and 60s and 70s. I remember rocking to this when it came out.
Same!!
58 here too. Great era, the 60s to the 90s. 👍🌻
62 here
I was born late in 1954, and I couldn’t agree with you more.
We definitely won the generational music lottery being born when we were.
I so wish I had experienced it! Got to enjoy the 80s and 90s though
Shocking Blue recorded this version of "Venus" in 1969.
Yup ... Not in the 70's.
@@smartin807 but reached #1 in 1970
Guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen, who wrote this song, stated in 2019 (50 years after the song) without going to much into detail that he still makes tons of euros a year, just from the royalties of this one song.
Robbie very talented songwriter and musician😎👍
@@paulkeah-tighii7046 yup, and drummer Cor Vanderbeek (sp?) is on the dole, penniless.
Awesome singer,band song
@@paulkeah-tighii7046thanks man 😉
Great Dutch classic! Greetings from the Netherlands, Jamal!
the singer is Hungarian. Sadly she passed away a few years back.
please ask your govt if my wife and i can move there for me :)
@@peternemeth4947 Mariska veres was born in the Hague. The Netherlands. Het dad was a Hungarian violist
hahah fair dinkum?
@@peternemeth4947 the bass player and drummer are dead too , only the guitar player ( Rob van Leeuwen) is still alive !
1969 This is a band from the Netherlands they also became famous in the US. Every boy in the Netherlands was in love withe singer Mariska Veres.
I was a 19yr old English boy and i will tell you Mariska Veres was an absolute hot doll and boy she could sing
Shoking Blue the band , RIP Mariska!
It was a commercial for a lady's shaver I believe called Venus
It was! And it’s all I can hear! 🤣
I remember that commercial, I was trying to think where I heard this song before
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Singer is Mariska Veres who passed away far to young from the big C, but she really owns this song which was covered in the 80s Bananarama.
Mariska great voice and very beautiful 😎
Bananarama covered the song in the 80s.
It is used a lot in commercials, namely the Venus brand of feminine shaving products.
This band is called Shocking Blue.
She's a cutie, ain't she? RIP Ms. Veres.
Godess!
Veres died of gallbladder cancer on 2 December 2006 at age 59, just three weeks after the disease had been detected
She grew to be a very large woman. I don’t know if body shape has anything to do with cancer...
The first time I heard this song I was caught by that unique voice, the guitar, and then I fell in love with the girl when I saw her for the first time. This song must be among the best songs
I was born 1960. And I love shocking blue. And the Zombies
My parents are Baby Boomers
I'm a Millennial
I was raised on songs like this 🤟
Your parents must of had you at an an old age lol . I was born in 76 and my parents listened to this .
I'd recommend the complete album , some songs are almost heavy in nature almost punk like rifts. Listen to " Love Buzz" Nirvana made a cover of it.
@@manchesterexplorer8519 they were in their late 30s
I'm almost 30 now which is crazy
They weren't baby boomers then , baby boomers were born directly after WW2. Your parents would of grown up in the 50's and be teens in the 60's.
For example I'm 45 , I'm considered generation X , for being a teen in the early 90's .....and yes life really flies by , every year seems to go by faster.
@@manchesterexplorer8519 Baby Boomers were born from 1946-1964
One of my favorite songs when I was growing up.
Also, the Church Organ has arrived!
Before I saw this video some years back, I thought she was a man by the sound of her voice.
Mine as well.
Also, if you like this one, you should try a song called 'All Right Now' by the group called 'Free'
they used this song in commercial for Venus women's razors a few years back maybe that's were you heard it
Anybody remember those K-Tel music albums in the 60s/70s? I remember having one with this song on it, played the **** out of it. I think I still have about 10-15 of those albums somewhere. Jamel - I suggest the Box Tops and the Grass Roots from around the same time.
I've been digitizing mine for a while now. Been pulling out many double- and triple-copies of those LPs. It's fun to see record dealers' faces when they get a CD for a "tip". Some were happy to take a few CDs if they had given me a good deal on my shopping.
I had a K-tel album with this song on it in the early 70's!
24 Electrifying Hits is the one - Venus was track #1 on that one :)
@@cjpew Got it right here (ya made me look lol), "24 Electrifying Hits" on "Syndicate Product" label (catalogue number SH 930). Very soon became K-tel. If you do a Google search, put in "24 Electrifying Hits (Syndicate SH 930)" Hopefully you'd get to see the cover and song list again
@@djhrecordhound4391 Yes, I actually went to the basement and pulled out all my K-tel albums. I seem to recall that one being my favorite.
I think it was used recently for a disposable women's shaver ad.
👍🏾
Yeah, I think it was Gillette that has a line of razors called Venus and they used this song. There was also a cover in the 1980s by Bananarama. I like this original version better though.
I had such a crush on that singer when I was a kid-- good lord.
and it was simply mandatory for us to learn to play that guitar riff in high school.
I think I was 12. Maybe 1970. For my birthday my parents got me a phonograph player and two 45 records. One was The Guess Who "No Time" and the other this one.
My first records ever. Have about 3,000 lps now...maybe 100 45 records. Always highly enjoyed collecting LP records...definitely more than CDs.
Love “No Time” and “Laughing” from the Guess Who - well worth a listen and shoulder bump or two, Jamel! 😁
You've got cool parents 😎
@@mariefc8504 thanks. Dad's gone but mom's still around.
same...i have one of the first 1500 UK Parlaphone pressings of Sgt. Pepper. People should really learn what dead wax nomenclature means...especially the guy that sold it to me for 60 bucks. i got this single, and Let it Be w/You Know My Name (Look up the Number) in 70.
Yes, it actually was filmed at a zoo outside The Hague.
The Netherlands 😊
Wassenaar?
They are dutch, thats cool, never noticed that before
@@elsdebruin8929 holland as well;)
Was covered by 3 girls known as BananaRama in the 80's
Exacly. And Siobhan Fahey from Bananarama baceme Shakespeare's Sister later with original songs, like Stay.
Going wayyyyyyyyy back! You probably know the Bananarama version. The song is Venus.
yep thats how i know it
One of the greatest one hit wonders of all time. Try “Ma Belle Amie” by the Tea Set.
They’re not one hot wonders. They had great song, where covered by the likes of Nirvana..
Also on K-Tel 24 Electrifying Hits - #2
Thank you for reminding me of this lost song! OMG I had forgotten, but remember it so vividly now. I was reading The Day Kennedy Was Shot and this song was playing on the radio. It stuck.
@@renepeterse1884 They are one hit wonders. I just Googled the song.
MightyJoe was a follow up
It was a commercial for Venus razors for women's legs.
👍🏾🤣Yes I Just Remembered
@@jamelakajamal Also appeared in The Queen's Gambit, if you watched that recently on Netflix.
This was used in The Queen's Gambit recently. Always loved this song.
I was shocked how good that show is
Yes. Although Beth is pale pale white and Mariska was very dusky and dark their eyes looked very much alike.
This was classic pop growing up. The band never really took off, but this is a middle school classic for me. Good one Mr. J.
Fun Fact: Shocking Blue was a Dutch band, and she, Mariska Veres, couldn't speak English. Someone wrote the lyrics out for her phonetically, and she sang it straight, not even knowing what the lyrics said.
I've doubted the veracity of that claim. She would have had to have done that for many years, effectively making a career of that tactic. Listen to this from '64: ua-cam.com/video/-GowlFJWYXc/v-deo.html
There is a lot of good tunes in the "One hit wonder" category. This was a big hit on the charts.
It shouldn't have been a 'one hit wonder' for them. A lot of their other songs are great too - maybe better.
Yes, there certainly are!
Another great “one hit wonder” is “Tighter, Tighter” by Alive N Kickin’!! Check it out brother!
They weren't a 1 hit wonder lmao
Not a one hit wonder
Love buzz was a hit for them and also for nirvana when they played it
You're missing out if you write them off as a 1 hit wonder. They called De La Soul a 1 hit wonder too smh
Her name was Mariska Veres. In 1975, she recorded a song called "Take Me High". Find it, it's on UA-cam, a great song you all should hear. She passed away in 2006 (Age 59, cancer). Love her voice.
Bananarama did a remake in the 80’s. Also used in Venus shaver commercials!
Oh yeah. I remember when it came out. For years I thought it was a guy singing lead. Love the video. Thanks!!!!
I thought it was a guy until I just heard it here. Lol! Love this song. Still have the 45
Yeah I thought it was a dude singing too! 😮😆
I could not believe it was woman singing this.
Me too!
Shocking Blue is underrated and most people don't have any idea that they are the original artist of this song. You may also want to check out Send Me A Postcard, Shocking You and Inkpot... these are 3 more of their songs that are often overlooked and under appreciated.
They were great. Wished more people knew about them.
Actually the original tune was written in 1963 by The Big Three” called “The Banjo Song”. They didn’t sue because they had lifted it from the old southern folk song “O Susannah”
@@johnnyfever3832 Thanks for providing some additional information.
Yes, the Venus music was "inspired" (taken) from the "The Banjo Song", but Robbie van Leeuwen of Shocking Blue wrote new lyrics and Shocking Blue are recognized as the original artist of the song Venus.
@@razzberrylogic don’t get me wrong. It’s one of my favorite songs of the era. Everybody “borrowed” tunes at that time ( and still do), and this one was beautifully done.
The (late) 60s were such a superior time for music and I say this as an 80s baby. Love, love, LOVE the 60s.
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They had a number of psychedelic rock hits throughout the counterculture movement during the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard", "Love Buzz", and "Venus," the last of which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970. The band sold 13.5 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974
Their song "Love Buzz" was covered Nirvana twenty years later.
Yes! On the Bleach album.
It was not the only influence the band had on Nirvana, Kurt mentioned them as one of their MANY inspirations
Way back machine on Professor Peabody.
While the cover was pretty decent.
This one is still better. Edgier, the cover was over-produced. And Mariska Veres had a seriously nice voice
Bananarama covered it
Agree 100%.
Nasty version.
Shocking Blue were the original performers of the song. Guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen, now 76, wrote it. The song was so successful that he can live on the royalties of that song alone. The Netherlands had a lot of great and internationally succesful bands in the late sixties and early seventies. Prime examples being "Radar Love" by Golden Earring and "Russian Spy and I" by The Hunters, featuring guitar virtuoso Jan Akkerman. It makes me proud to be Dutch.
A classic for all time - better than ANYTHING today
Shocking Blue is the Band
Best Dutch Band ever
Big fan since 1968 when I heard"Send me a postcard"great song, listen to it 😎😆
This a dutch band right? Very popular song back in the day🤗🤗🤗
Yes, they were dutch... there were lots of very good dutch bands in the 60s.
Some think that Holland had the best pop/rock scene during the 60s in Europe after the British
Your absolutely right
I'm old enough to remember when this song first came on the radio. Shout out to The Queen's Gambit for showcasing it in the Netflix series.
The band was Shocking Blue and the song is "Venus" which they recorded and had a huge international hit with back in 1968. Shocking Blue was a Dutch Pop/Rock band. Funnily enough, the cover version which was by British Dance/Pop band Bananarama was in 1986. 🙂
They did some great songs, "Love Buzz" one of my favs. "Never Marry a Railroad Man" has a couple of great videos. And their song, "Mighty Joe" (my other favorite) was actually a minor hit for them.
you have probably heard the bananarama cover of this song- that's how you know it
Or he heard it on the commercial for women’s razors. (Likely 😉)
@@rachel-in-the-208 Right, the shaver is named Venus.
Or maybe from the Brady Bunch movie. This is Marcia Brady's theme!👏👏👏👏
@goatboy lmao omg….I guess I thought I was the only one who heard it from that movie. First time I ever heard it was when I was like 5 from that movie 😂😂😂
The guitar player of shocking blue (Robbie van Leeuwen) also wrote 'love buzz' which Nirvana covered and put on their 'bleach' album. Robbie also played mandoline in the band Galaxy-Lin who had a hit with the song 'long hot summer'
Dutch band and also the original of the song Venus, from 1969. Im also pretty sure that its not the LA Zoo, most likely the Zoo in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands).
Great to see your smile Jamel! Love your reaction to a song I've known since my first radio.
Now you're stepping back in time drive-in movie's before you were born. Good fun
In the U.K. it was used on a commercial for women’s sanitary towels. It was also covered by 80’s girl group - Bananarama
2021 12 31, remembering Shocking Blue - Venus as the athem for my 70's time frame when I was born. But seeing you reacting to this theme just sparked my day. Woooha.
There's a live performance shot in b&w that shows the raw sound of Shocking Blue and that this was more of a true garage rock song. It's up on UA-cam.
Love love love this song one of my favories
I love these early 70's BOMBSHELLS!!!! The guitarist Van Leeuwen wrote this song. And when he was writing he misspelled Goddess, he spelled it: Goddness on the mountaintop. And that is the exact way the sexy leader Mariska pronounced. Shocking Blue were from the Netherlands and spoke very little English.
Gotta do more Shocking Blue,"Live in Japan"sounds awesome, when you hear her sing live, gonna knock your socks off son😎👍
I'm glad to see someone reacting to Shocking Blue.
Yay! And you look in better spirits! 💛Suggest “Love Buzz” by Shocking Blue (or Nirvana’s 1988 cover of “Love Buzz” on their first album, Bleach, which rules). “Send Me a Postcard” is good, too.
Love Buzz was Nirvana's first single as well, and 1st pressings of that 45 are now quite rare
I was dancing to this way back in the day at our local Youth Club. How the memories have flooded back of first kisses and so much more...
I forgot about this song and group, I grew up with this , In 60’s and early ‘70! I love this! Thank you so much!
It was later released by BananaRama and yes the song is Venus. Love Love your enthusiasm!
This song starts the "Stars on 45 Medley" a hit in the 70s. Do a reaction to the Stars on 45 Medley for a short trip mostly songs done by the Beatles from the 60s. Thanks
That's actually an edit from the album cut. It takes up all of side 1
I’ve heard Stars on 45 myself! Early 80s! I think on 8 track cartridge or cassette! And it was i think the Beatles medley!! Memories from that one!! You gotta react to that, Meco’s Empire Strikes Back Disco, Electric Boogie, Cha Cha Slide, The Hustle, Le Freak, Macarena and Living La Vida Loca
Jamel Venus by Shocking blue after so many decades
It still a wonderful sound.
Thanks for playing it.
This song was popular when I was in Jr. high in the 60's.. This girl always called me Venus after this song.. I guess I had it back then and I still have it at 65..
You may remember a popular cover of this song by the band Bananarama. That version was very popular back in the 80s.
This was popular in 1970 ,,, It came out in the summer of 1969,
Hell yes. Absolutely love this song. The 45 gets spun frequently here.
Edit: Try 'Lake Shore Drive' by Aliotta Jeremiah and Haynes next
Edit: Try 'Lake Shore Drive' by Aliotta Jeremiah and Haynes next
Yes!!!!
You probably heard the Bananarama cover of this. Such a great rockin pop song! Huge hit back in the day.
Venus women’s razors used this song in their commercials 😁
I know I'll probably get some slack on this, but in 1986, Bananarama did a great cover of the song. Although very different than the original here...
I like both
@@ncoppens ~ 👍Me too...
Great cover?
@@rafaelorantes7185 ~ I believe it was great. It was different, but without losing the original composition. Anyone can record a cover just like the original recording. It takes creativity to redo it, and make it their own at the same time...
I agree. I love both versions, both went #1. Bananarama’s version was an 80’s dance club interpretation of the original. The same and yet different. I can listen to either over and over.
And the vinyl album with this song is almost impossible to find. I've looked.
The band was highly influential to Nirvana--their first single was a cover of Love Buzz. (edit: their self-titled LP is probably sought out more often now)
Music On Vinyl has reissued all the Shocking Blue albums in recent years, highly, highly recommend.
A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man mad
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no one else had, whoa!
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
Well, I'm your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire
I was just Thinking about this song!!!!
then I put on UA-cam and What do I see?
I LOVED THIS SONG WHEN IT 1ST CAME OUT !
We played it ALL DAY THE TIME!
it has been "covered"more than once, but I'm "a musical Snob"!
No one can "Touch Shocking Blue"!
Stay Safe ❤️
Keep Well
Everyone!
“If you haven’t already try this classic “ Something in the Air”(Thunderclap Newman).”
They also have a really cool, but far less well known song called "Love Buzz", which, surprising as it might be, Nirvana actually covered and released as the A side of their first single in 1988. Both versions are good, but unsurprisingly fairly distinctive.
This song was on the radio all thought the 70's. It was just one of those songs that never became boring or over played.
Yessss, the original!!! I told you.... :-) Dutch band. RIP Mariska veres.
It was on a commercial for years lady razors
Yes, but I believe it was the Bananrama cover of this song they used.
She's hot
Sexy Dutch girl I believe great eyes sexy 👀.
Damn right
Fuck yeah
Tall brunettes are always the sexiest
Robbie van Leeuwen was the primary songwriter of the group and he was a great guitar player. (He's also the only member from that particular lineup that's still living.) He did admit he took that opening guitar part from "Pin Ball Wizard". But its such a cool guitar opening. One of those guitar parts that many beginning guitar players love to learn. Its just fun to play!
This also used to be a song for the venus shaving razor! Every once in a while this song out of the blue would pop in my head! @Jamel aka Jamal
Hi Jamal!!
I was in Jr high when this broke. Everyone said shit this goes to the top.
Another great band from the Netherlands, back in the seventies🤘🏻❤️🇳🇱
Great hit also in the US
Jam Man....You are stuck in the 70's. And, that's the greatest time to be alive. Good for you. Right on and solid. Dutch bands. So cool.
Mel this journey has helped me during these terrible times. I truly thank you and appreciate all you do. 🙏🙏🙏
OMG I was in Jr High when this came on the scene, WKLZ in Detroit! Way back machine indeed!
Covered, in the 80s, by Bananarama, it's also used for the Venus women's razor.
I grew up with the Bananarama version from the 80s, a UK band. And it has been used in many commercials. This is my first time seeing and hearing the original. What a brilliant song.
React to the song“ Never Marry a Railroad Man”,,,,, from the same band....
Good song. And that would make Shocking Blue a "more-than-one-hit" wonder. ;-)
That's a another great song from Shocking Blue!😎
Hell yeah man, that's such an amazing song.
Bananarama covered it. They did a great job too.
That Bananarama album was really good.
You probably remember hearing the Banarama version of this song from the late 80s. It was always a banger at the dance clubs!
1969 - I was 8 when that came out I thought she was beautiful. Thanks for checking this out. Your reactions are awesome.
Bananarama did a version of "Venus" that was pretty good. You may have heard that version. I think it came out in the 80's.
Great reaction. Band is Shocking Blue. Venus has been done by many bands. Gotta check out "Love Buzz" by the same band.
One of the first songs I learned to play on the bass, but we did Nirvana's version.
Love Buzz was Nirvana's first single. The first pressing 45rpm of it is now rare
Bananarama did a cover and a hit on this.
Considered as one hit wonder in the US, Shocking Blue scored several hits in Europe, "Never Marry A Railroad Man", "Send Me A Postcard", "Blossom Lady" and others. Guitarist Robbie Van Leeuwen was the composer, Mariska Verees providing the voice. Them plus bassist Claasje Van Der Val and drummer Cor (nelius) Van Der Beek formed the classic line-up. Due to constant international touring, the line-up literally ran out of steam by 1971 and the band split 1974.
Oh, my dear Lord. I have listened to this song since the end of the 1960s, and until 30 seconds ago I thought that was a guy singing. Mind - BLOWN!
Let the music play.... regardless of who is holding the mic.
First version. Girl band had hit in 80s w/it.
“ Great Dutch group...Robbie was a great guitar player.”
Another 60s tune covered in the 80s is "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me": Dionne Warwick (1963), Sandie Shaw (1964), Naked Eyes (1983).