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YOAV ATZMONY

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Nov 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/13/96
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HI all. This has been killing me all day. Who sang the original version of Venus? BTW, not the cover by Bananarama. I know it was done in the late 60s.

Thanks!

David J. Coyle

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Nov 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/13/96
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Are you talking about the "Venus" that was remade by a girl-group called
Bananarama in the 80s? The original group that performed the song were
the Dutch group The Shocking Blue, in 1970...unless there was an earlier
more obscure version of the song.

Or you might be talking about "Venus" by Frankie Avalon, ca. 1963, which
is an entirely different song.

Henk Dolleman

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Nov 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/13/96
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On 13 Nov 1996 05:54:47 GMT, "David J. Coyle" <dco...@bright.net>
wrote:

>Are you talking about the "Venus" that was remade by a girl-group called
>Bananarama in the 80s? The original group that performed the song were
>the Dutch group The Shocking Blue, in 1970...unless there was an earlier
>more obscure version of the song.

Robbie van Leeuwen, who played guitar in Shocking Blue, wrote the
song. Mariska Veres was the singer of the band. There's no earlier
version from *their* Venus.

Henk

je...@mirror.his.com

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Nov 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/13/96
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> Venus

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>HI all. This has been killing me all day. Who sang the original version of Ve
>nus? BTW, not the cover by Bananarama. I know it was done in the late 60s.
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>Thanks!
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This is right on the edge of the groups time frame but here goes; "Venus"
was done by Shocking Blue, a Dutch group which had a long a pretty
successful carear in their home country, less so in both Europe and the
US. The record came out in Holland in very late '69, and after hitting big
in Europe, it was released in the US in 1970. They didn't manage to follow
up this success in the US, but they cut several LP's between 1970-4. They
are all catchy pop and uptempo, and it's a shame the band didn't have more
luck outside of Holland. Hope this helps...

Jeff Zang
jeff...@mirror.his.com

Melvin Ah Ching

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Nov 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM11/15/96
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: in Europe, it was released in the US in 1970. They didn't manage to follow

: up this success in the US, but they cut several LP's between 1970-4. They
: are all catchy pop and uptempo, and it's a shame the band didn't have more
: luck outside of Holland. Hope this helps...

Are any of Shocking Blue's albums available in the U.S. on CD? I would
like to get a CD copy of the B-side to "Venus" which was "Hot Sand."

- MEL
http://www.lava.net/~macpro


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