My song today is ‘Venus’. This song was written by Ed Marshall. The most successful and best-known recording of the track was done by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959, where it reached the top of the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ chart. ‘Venus’ became Avalon's first number-one hit on the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ chart, where it spent five weeks atop the survey. The song also reached Number 10 on the ‘R&B Chart’.
The song's lyrics detail a man's plea to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, to send him a girl to love, and one who will love him as well. Billboard ranked ‘Venus’ as the Number 4 song for 1959. The song was also covered by Dickie Valentine (1959): Sam Cook (1960): Pat Boone (1964): Johnny Mathis (1968): Barry Manilow (2006).
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I would have to admit that ever since I first developed a romantic pulse during my early teenage years, I have always had eyes for beautiful women, both younger and older than myself. There is a bone structure which is the foundation of all beautiful faces that remain with some women even into their seventies, and which makes the woman look twenty years younger than what she is. My wife Sheila (who is 14 years younger than my current 77 years-and 78 in November) is blessed with such a facial bone structure which leads me to place her image alongside that of the Mona Lisa at the head of my Facebook page. I know that though she was still in her early twenties when that photograph of her was taken, the passage of another forty years since, have still been kind to her in her facial looks. Nobody would even consider her having reached 50, let alone being a few years short of collecting her old-age pension!
Indeed, I am doubly blessed, as Sheila is genuinely as beautiful inside as she is out. She is my Venus and had she not proposed marriage to me during early 2011, I would have undoubtedly asked her eventually (only joking, Venus).
Love and peace Bill xxx