April 26, 2020 —– Chart #14

Hello Musical Friends,

Hope you are having a nice Sunday and enjoying beautiful weather. Today’s chart comes from The Netherlands in 1969.  “Venus” is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, initially released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. Written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the song topped the charts in nine countries. In 1981, it was used to open the “Stars on 45” medley. In 1986, English girl group Bananarama covered “Venus” for their third studio album, True Confessions, reaching number one in six countries. The composition has been featured in numerous films, television shows and commercials, and covered dozens of times by artists around the world.

Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. The band had a number of psychedelic rock hits throughout the counterculture movements era 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 No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970.

The band had sold 13.5 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974.

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Keep Rockin’,

Stan