Shocking Blue

Songtekst

A goddess on a mountain top
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
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 a man
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no-one else had

She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

Goddess on the mountain top
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
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

Songinformatie

Het gitaarloopje van Venus van Shocking Blue is gebaseerd op The Banjo Song van The Big Three (1963)
[FM Records FM 3003]
[Tollie Records 9006]


het origineel is van:

1969: Shocking Blue
[Pink Elephant 22.015]
[n°3 NL-hit]
[Colossus C 108]
[n°1 US-hit]
[Penny Farthung PEN 702]
[n°8 UK-hit]
[Metromone M 25 161]
[n°2 hit in West-Duitsland]

1970: Shocking Blue op de LP: At Home
[Pink Elephant 888.001]
[n°4 NL album-hit]

1970: The Shocking Blue op de LP: The Shocking Blue
[Colossus CS 1000]
[n°31 US album-hit]


cover-versies:

1970: Casey And The Pressure Group
[Philips 336 116 PF]

1970: Tom Jones op de LP: Tom
[Decca SKL.5045]
[n°4 UK album-hit]
[Parrot XPAS 71037]
[n°6 US album-hit]

1970: Tom Jones
[London 33DLM 5098]
(Argentijnse persing)

1970: Augusto Righetti (La Migliore Versione In Italiano)
[Durium LdA 7669]

1970: Jerry Ross Symposium
[Colossus C 127]

1978: Sacha [= Sacha Distel] (Version Anglaise)
[Carrere Records 49.356]

1986: Bananarama
[London 886 056-7]
[n°4 NL-hit]
[London 886-056-7]
[n°1 US-hit]
[London NANA 10]
[n°8 UK-hit]

1993: Rock Ola & Charades op de CD: Rock Ola & Charades {Finse versie}
[Snap SNAPCD 305 CD]

Trivia

Bananarama's coverversie Venus bereikte in 1986 een 4e plaats in de Top 40.
Sandra van Nieuwlands remake Venus bereikte in 2013 een 25e plaats in de Top 40.

Artiest	Shocking Blue
	A-kant
Titel	[The Shocking Blue] Venus
Componist(en)	R. v. Leeuwen
Producer(s)	Shocking Blue
	B-kant
Titel	[The Shocking Blue] Hot Sand
Componist(en)	R. v. Leeuwen
Producer(s)	Shocking Blue
Platenlabel	Pink Elephant
Catalogusnr	22.015