“Venus” #1 2/7/1970

A huge international smash from the one-US-hit Dutch band Shocking Blue. None of the members spoke English, so lead singer Mariska Veres painstakingly recorded her vocals phonetically. The first line was supposed to read “A goddess on the mountain top” but was mis-translated as “god-NESS” and Veres sang it that way. Later versions fixed the error. The Bananarama remake in 1986 was also #1.