Mariska Veres The Shocking Blue Venus

Venus is a 1969 song written by Robbie van Leeuwen. In 1970, the Dutch rock band Shocking Blue took the song to number one in nine countries. The song s lead vocals are performed by Mariska Veres. The song s music and lyrics were written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the band s guitarist, sitarist and background vocalist, who also produced along with record producer Jerry Ross. Van Leeuwen originally miswrote the line goddess on the mountain as godness on the mountain so Veres sang it this way on the hit recording of the song. This was corrected in later needed The Hohner electric piano on the single was played by Cees Schrama