{"id":1935,"date":"2022-09-06T07:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2022-09-06T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:44:13","slug":"venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Venus<\/strong>&#8221; is a song by Dutch&nbsp;band&nbsp;Shocking Blue, initially released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. The song topped the charts in a number of countries but not in the Netherlands where it stranded at number 2. It did however become the first song by a Dutch band to reach number 1 on the U.S.&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;Hot 100. Shocking Blue&#8217;s guitarist Robbie Van Leeuwen wrote the song. The lyrics contained a typo in the line &#8220;A goddess on a mountain top&#8221;, with &#8220;goddess&#8221; written as &#8220;goddness&#8221;, which was how the band&#8217;s singer, Mariska Veres, sang it. The result was a chart topper with a misspoken first line thanks to a typo. Most listeners didn&#8217;t notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shocking Blue - Venus (Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LhkyyCvUHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus&#8221; is a song by Dutch&nbsp;band&nbsp;Shocking Blue, initially released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. The song topped the charts in a number of countries but not in the Netherlands where it stranded at number 2. It did however become the first song by a Dutch band to reach number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-shocking-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}