Shocking Blue - Venus (REACTION) with my wife

[@williamcabell142]

There will never be another Two decades like the 60’s and 70’s! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@laziojohnny79]

Pretty sure every century has got one of those... But more seriously; kids & teens from the 50's, 80s, 90's & 00's all say the same about those periods and they're all right.

[@Blogdeunoperador]

Hi guys, here in Peru there are radio stations that still plays this song. So this was a global hit for sure.

[@gcats6059]

She's got it.....yea baby she's got it!

[@anthonybalistreri5226]

Mariska Veres is the lead singer. While born in The Netherlands, her heritage is Hungarian Romani, at least according to Wiki.

[@brucster99b2]

Nederbeat was the term given to Dutch pop/rock bands, like Merseybeat was used as a term to describe the groups coming out of Liverpool. "Venus" was a huge world-wide hit, reaching Number 1 in quite a few countries.

[@loriec2452]

One of my favorites from childhood. I sang along now. She’s got it! Thanks for the reaction!

[@davidfrediani4965]

I remember this song being played a lot in our local hang out when I was a teenager. Never knew they were from Europe.

[@glenn20081965]

In 1986, English girl group Bananarama covered "Venus" for their third studio album. It was a great cover too.

[@marksterner7532]

It was an insult to this iconic performance!

[@glenn20081965]

@@marksterner7532 🥱🤧🫨😆

[@3pan1]

I love it the guy is aware of a venus sitting right next to him

[@anthonybalistreri5226]

Other EU popular bands in the US: The Scorpions (Germany), ABBA (Sweden as you said), U2 (Ireland), The Corrs (Ireland), Rammstein (Germany), Europe (Sweden). I'm sure there are more, but these are the only ones I can think of easily.

[@ChrisEchoes]

The song was such a huge hit all over the world (and is still played on radio all over) that the guy who wrote it, the guitarplayer, can live easily and happily from the royalties. He did some music work since the Shocking Blue but nothing as succesfull as Venus.

[@AlexHennsa]

Am older than this song , but still enjoining it as much as when I was 16 !

[@xyxyqw]

Shocking Blue was such an underrated band,always only known for her "Venus"....I have all their albums on vinyl...check their other songs out,you'll be surprised😉

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Big #1 song. I remember buying the record in December 1969. It was released in December 1969 and hit number one in early 1970. It was a Gold record.❤❤❤

[@johnbumgardner7977]

I love the shocking blue 💙

[@KennethSavage-nn2vv]

Another great Dutch band. Being a drummer this drummer is Cor van der Beek who died in 1998. Fun reaction and review. 👊🏻

[@ArnoldLayne-he9qq]

some songs make you smile 🙂

[@antoniocarlin5026]

Shoking Blue, Focus, Golden Earring and The Gathering...Best Dustchs Bands ever!!!

[@willieboy3011]

Out of Focus and Can also.

[@erickvermeulen9734]

Nederbeat - the Dutch pop scene from late sixties and seventies. There were many bands from the Hague, not only Shocking Blue and Golden Earring but also Earth & Fire, Tee Set (Ma Belle Amie), Sandy Coast, Q65, and from nearby Delft the band Alquin.

[@musicaficionado2974]

How about Ekseption? Their interpretation of classic music is amazing, e.g., kzbin.info/www/bejne/sF6mf4enrKmWb68

[@laziojohnny79]

One could argue for the Cats, Pussycat, Rowwen Hèze, DeWolff, Navarone, Johan, Van Dik Hout, The Nits, Doe Maar, De Staat, BZN, Krezip, Within Tempation, Kane, Kensington, Earth & Fire or Di-Rect. But they ,of course, all pale compared to the legendary Sjonnies as well to the WC Experience.

[@musicaficionado2974]

@@laziojohnny79 So much new information? Are they all Dutch? Need to check them all out. I am pretty impartial cause my second foreign language in college was Dutch. From the very first day our professor started to teach us Dutch songs, however, older, more traditional stuff like Geef mij maar Amsterdam, Tulpen uit Amsterdam, Oh Johnny, Wat zullen wij drinken (zeven dagen lang), etc. We loved them and they increased our vocabulary so much. It's a good way to learn a foreign language. So thank you very much for listing all these artists. Although they sing in English, I love Dutch pop and rock. I would also like to mention Luv' (sorry about that 🙂). But they were great export for Holland. Thanks again and God Bless! P.S. BTW, just checked out Rowwen Hèze. Great stuff! Sounded rather Celtic to me.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

Fun fact: Mariska didn't speak English, so she memorized the lyrics phonetically.

[@sukie584]

Which is why she sings Godness instead of Goddess. There was a typo when the lyrics were written out.

[@fuzzie1956]

The Livin Blues and Golden Earring from the Hague.

[@marciofernando679]

Grande banda hoje meio esquecida com essa vocalista lendaria e essa musica foi seu maior sucesso

[@michaelasay8587]

No Ingles??

[@paulkeahtigh2]

Big fan since 1968,many great songs, Mariska very beautiful and amazing singer and a great band, Robbie great musician, thanks 😎🏹

[@vvcougar71]

I loved this song when it first came out. Great song. Yes ABBA was a big one.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

You should check out Golden Earring, that was the biggest Dutch band in the US, for sure. Radar Love was a huge hit.

[@r_v_g]

I saw them live in 1970! Djeezus, I'm old I just realised.

[@lupodelupis3672]

One of the best european groups of the 60's and the 70's.

[@alanFconrad]

they played this tune a couple of times on "The Queens Gambit"

[@willieboy3011]

One hit wonder. Oh man, she was 60s hot. Yeah, she's got it there for sure. The song was on the radio a lot in the US then.

[@sukie584]

In the US. She had other hits in Netherlands & other parts..

[@JohnBullard]

So much music of that era was really fun music, light and happy, made you bounce. And positive songs, like Ray Stevens ' song EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL.

[@joannerichards1750]

Los Bravos were a Spanish beat group, formed in 1965 and based in Madrid. They are most well known for their debut single "Black Is Black" which reached No. 2 in the United Kingdom in July 1966 and No. 4 in the United States (the first Spanish group to do so), selling over a million records worldwide.

[@mikemiller3069]

There were several famous bands from Canada too.

[@billw715]

In regards to foreign musicians being popular in the USA outside of the U.S. is rare. It's rare to be Canadian, even, to have success in the U.S. In the 1960s, there was the British Invasion with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks & The Yardbirds to name a few bands. Followed by other British bands in the decade like The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin & The Bee Gees to name some more. The 70s had bands like The Bee Gees, Queen, ELO, Supertramp, Genesis & Foreigner. The 1980s saw the USA get their second "British Invasion" with the New Wave genre of music led by Duran Duran & its countryman like Culture Club, Billy Idol, The Human League, The Fixx & The Police to also name several notable artists from this listing. There hasn't been any group of British bands/musicians who have made an impact with the American music audience since the early 1980s with the second British Invasion. So the British influence with the American audience I'd say ran predominantly from the early to mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. In regards to bands from Europe outside of Great Britain. There are Irish musicians such as U2, Enya, The Cranberries & Sinéad O'Connor. Sweden: ABBA & Ace Of Base. France: Daft Punk, Deep Forest & Air. Germany: Rammstein, Enigma, Scorpions, Kraftwerk, & Nena. Austria: Falco. There are most likely others but not many.

[@62impalaconvert]

Many groups from other parts of the world became wildly popular in the US. ABBA and the Beatles (and many others from GB) just to name a couple. From Austraila and Canada too. There even was a smash hit in the US by the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto called Sukiyaki. I sure that there have been many more that I can't think of now.

[@billw715]

Bananarama (UK) did a cover version of "Venus" in 1986 & their version reached #1 in multiple countries.

[@mfredmoe]

❤

[@corepuncher]

Cool that Billy Corrigan played the drums in this 1:47

[@coffee-xg6my]

"Nederbeat" was a Dutch music genre...There was also "Merseybeat" which was a British music genre.

[@dagmar.6954]

I remember this group. Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in 1967. Their 2 biggest hits were "Venus" & "Send Me A Postcard". They had some other songs such as "Long & Lonesome Road", "Mighty Joe", "Never Marry A Railroad Man" etc. The lead singer had a very powerful voice. Another famous Dutch group from that era was Golden Earring.

[@bertusvanhal8855]

Here some but the most come from England, the Groups that here writhen down had mostly 2 well known songs in a sudden part of the U.S.A. Scorpions, Alphaville, Rammstein [Germany], Venga Boys, Golden Earing, Andre Rieu [Netherlands], U2, [some other bands from Ireland of Scottland] [Ireland], Abba, The Cardigans, Avicii, Roxette, Europe, [Zweden] MANESKIN, A.Boccelli, [Italie] Enrique Iglesias, [Spain] then one hit wonders like : Falco, ?Maccarena?, Milli Vanilli, Zuccherro, and others.

[@henkfranken927]

Don't know if someone already answered your question' what is Nederbeat exactly', so let's try to explain it for you... 'Nederbeat' is the Dutch musical streaming from the early or mid sixties till the end of that decade in witch catchy poppy songs became populair. It was a reaction on the English beat music from that period (like The Beatles). A lot of Dutch bands became really populair with the youth with that kind of music. Bands like Shocking Blue, Tee Set, Sandy Coast, Golden Earings (yes, with an 's' at the end 🙂 ) and Q65 to name a few... 😊😊🙂

[@redcan5254]

AH HA Take On Me ... Oslo Norway ... I Think ... 😮😮😮😮😮😮 May 24 2024 (1214 hrs)

[@claytonechols4876]

A fun group to watch was The Tielman Brothers they were the first Dutch-Indonesian band to successfully venture into the international music scene in the 1950s. They were one of the pioneers of rock and roll in The Netherlands, and are credited with releasing the first Dutch rock and roll single, "Rock Little Baby of Mine" in 1958. The band became famous in Europe for playing a kind of rock and roll later called Indorock. Here is link to a video that will put a smile on your face. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6aunImrm8yed6csi=un2IgAjO_pBv1rgO

[@onomatopie1]

rip Mariska

[@DakotaBorn-111]

There was a German band from the 80s I liked. Trio

[@cooperdoggie80]

Kraftwerk from Germany and Detroit, Michigan go together like peanut butter and jelly. You should check out the song, "Numbers" from Kraftwerk.

[@jackiec859]

You're right about the Kraftwerk-Detroit connection. *The Electrifying Mojo!*

[@ziggymarlowe5654]

ABBA was very popular in the States. Little River Band, AC/DC and The Seekers (folk music) Australian bands that found success in the States. Santana originally from Mexico. Shakira from Columbia. I personally like Peter Fox from Berlin. These are a few that come to mind. I'm sure there are many others.

[@antoniocarlin5026]

they say only bands from Europe :p

[@ziggymarlowe5654]

@@antoniocarlin5026 Yeah, my bad. I got carried away 😂

[@squirehobbs6754]

...Scorpions, A-ha, Golden Earing

[@paulkeahtigh2]

More Shocking Blue please 😎🌷

[@jarrodbinthenc6810]

❤❤❤

[@randybaker6042]

Roxette (Sweden) Four #1 hits and Two #2 hits in America. That's very successful. Scorpions (Germany) 3 top 10 albums in a row.

[@P-M-869]

I know this song from farther back, by Frankie Avalon.

[@coffee-xg6my]

Need to react to Shocking Blue - "Mighty Joe" and Shocking Blue -"Never marry a Railroad Man" Two great songs!

[@donaldduck2139]

1970s 'Pussycat' was from Holland, a lot of hits also from Holland 'Golden Earing' and their big hit 'Radar Love'. . . . The Scorpions from Germany and the big hit 'Wind of change' 1990. . . . solo artist Demis Roussos from Greece had some hits one being 'My Friend the Wind' . . . . .there's 4

[@stefcas]

Coming close to my country (Belgium) and to my youth. All European bands in this time, were preferring to make songs in English, when the had a hope to get big, recognized 'all over the world' (= in England and the USA). Most failed, but some did have one or a few songs doing good. One trick pony's. Venus is one of those examples. Shocking Blues had no other song with succes like that. From my country : Daydreams, kzbin.info/www/bejne/laipfoxmp5yLY9k

[@blindriv3r]

Thanks for another great reaction. The melody for this was from a version of the old US folk song O Susanah, by Tim Rose, he called it the Banjo Song. Neil Young played an electric version as a teen in his band, finally recording it that way in the early 2000s kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6bUn4FpmtBlrKs

[@masterrubyan2976]

Yes there are popular bands from Europe outside of the UK, in the USA. Shocking Blue, Venus 3 week number 1 in the top 100 in the US. And Golden Earring with the songs: Radar Love and Twilight zone. These are both Dutch bands. But there are also the Scorpions from Germany and more.

[@markmurphy558]

German metal bands are very popular. ABBA was huge. Nena had a couple of hits in the eighties(99 luft balloons). Hispanic msicians have made some inroads recently, in both pop and rap songs. And of course all the Romanian and Polish rockkers are well known. (Just kidding).

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Haha, good one 😂

[@dirish709]

As a preteen (66 now) I thought a guy sang this song. Quite surprised to discover that is was a GIRL singing. Crazy.

[@sukie584]

Bananarama was the girl band.

[@cynergy4]

Funny, for decades I thought that it was a man singing, and it was truly "shocking" for me when I saw the video for the first time!

[@love-vy1ry]

Neder-beat stands for Dutch bands playing beat (rock) mostly in English. Late 60ties and the 70ties those Dutch bands where after UK and USA bands most succesfull in the charts. And that is without speaking English as your native language quit a thing.

[@dougwill8850]

Bananarama is the cover you may be thinking of.

[@john0597]

Just to let you know you're talking about ABBA but ABBA only had one number one in America which was Dancing Queen as well they had about 9 number ones in the UK

[@frankpinth]

scorpions from germany

[@josbroersma7419]

Please react to Massada- Latin Dance (Malukubeats from the Netherlands, real banger)

[@bumperu]

I thought it was in top 40 in 1969 or early 70s?

[@jackiec859]

"They looked a little camera shy..." They looked a little high. Nothin' wrong with that.💁🏿‍♀

[@terrymartin9954]

ABBA

[@StevenW1958]

This song was released in the Netherlands on July 14, 1969 and here in the United States on October 2, 1969.

[@claran123456789]

Cuando van a reaccionar a Danna Paola y a Maria José?

[@lucky25252]

U2,ABBA

[@rafaelorantes7185]

1969

[@john0597]

Can I just say well actually it's from 1970 isn't it Venus because Bananarama done this in the 1980s that's where you probably remember it from

[@tinajones5372]

Iron Maiden!!!

[@hankhaney3785]

Hey guys, have ya ever thought about interjecting some humor into your show ? Suggestion: Monty Python Architect Sketch...is a good start. The world needs more "humor".

[@MerchantOfAlba]

Oh, never thought of that. And agreed! World needs more humour 👍💚

[@hankhaney3785]

@@MerchantOfAlba btw, I will still like you, regardless if we agree or not :)

[@KevinRCarr]

That's really her voice, she's just really bad at lip-syncing with a recording. 😏