Venus (Frankie Avalon song)

"Venus" is a song written by Ed Marshall and Peter DeAngelis. The most successful and best-known recording of the track was done by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959 (see 1959 in music).

Background

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 ten 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 it as the No. 4 song for 1959.

The song was covered in the United Kingdom by Dickie Valentine who spent a week at number 20 in the Singles Chart in May 1959, the week before Frankie Avalon reached the Top 20 with his original version.

In 1976, Avalon released a new disco version of "Venus". This helped revive the singer's career, as his success had been waning prior to its release and was Avalon's last Billboard Hot 100 hit. The re-recording of "Venus" peaking at number forty-six and at number one on the Easy Listening chart. Avalon was quoted describing the remake: "It was all right, but I still prefer the original."

Venus (Sirius XM)

Venus is a Sirius XM Radio station playing rhythmic pop from the 2000s through today similar to Pop2K,

Details

Venus is a Rhythmic Top 40 station with an emphasis on current-based Rhythmic Pop/Dance hits from the 2000s and today with recurrents from the 2000s, all commercial-free. The channel replaces Top 20 on 20, which officially signed off on July 16, 2014 at 12:04 AM after 14 years. The first song to be played on Venus was "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas. With the launch of Venus, the move will also give Sirius XM two channels with a Rhythmic-focused format, joining The Heat, whose direction favors current-based R&B/Hip-Hop hits.

With the addition of Pitbull's Globalization Radio, which was launched in 2015, Venus has shifted to Rhythmic Pop, allowing Globalization Radio to take on the current Rhythmic/Dance fare, Venus was dropped from the satellites, allowing users can still hear Venus online.

References

External Links

  • Sirius XM/Venus
  • List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters

    The following is a list of main characters in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

    Main protagonists

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a team of mutant red-eared sliders named after four Renaissance artists and living in the sewers of New York City, where they train by day and fight crime by night as ninjas.

    Leonardo

    Leonardo is the tactical, courageous leader of the Ninja Turtles and a devoted student of Ninjutsu, usually wearing a blue mask and wielding two katanas.

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo is the most comical of the Ninja Turtles, usually wearing an orange mask and wielding a pair of nunchucks.

    Donatello

    Donatello is the scientist, inventor, engineer and technological genius of the Ninja Turtles, usually wearing a purple mask and wielding a bo-staff.

    Raphael

    Raphael is the bad boy of the Ninja Turtles, wearing a red mask and wielding a pair of sais.

    Supporting characters

    Splinter

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    Zeus

    Zeus (/ˈzjs/ ZEWS;Ancient Greek: Ζεύς, Zeús, [zdeǔ̯s]; Modern Greek: Δίας, Días [ˈði.as]) was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.

    Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses.

    He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned the others to their roles: "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτα, Nephelēgereta) also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.

    Zeus (Marvel Comics)

    Zeus, full name Zeus Panhellenios, is a fictional character, a god appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

    Publication history

    The comic version of Zeus is based on the god of the same name from Greek mythology. Zeus first appears in Venus #5 (June 1949), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

    Fictional character biography

    Zeus (EP)

    Zeus is an EP by the band British Sea Power. It was released on 4 October 2010 in the UK.

    The EP, and its title track, are named after the transit van used by the band, according to singer and guitarist Yan.

    The band's merchandise stand at concerts also sold their own brand of beer named "Zeus".

    Contradictory to the appearance of their names, the track "Mongk" is a remix of the song "Mongk II", which was written earlier but released later. Both "Mongk II" and "Cleaning Out The Rooms" appeared on the Valhalla Dancehall album, released a few months after Zeus.

    Track listing

  • "Zeus" – 7:02
  • "Cleaning Out The Rooms" – 7:11
  • "Can We Do It?" – 2:50
  • "Bear" – 5:56
  • "Pardon My Friends" – 2:35
  • "Mongk" – 4:57
  • "kW·h" – 3:22
  • "Retreat" (Bonus Track) – 8:49
  • Release history

    References

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    Fancy Passes

    by: Supremes

    Money isn't everything
    AsK anyone who's rich
    It can buy pain and misery
    Or grief
    Though money isn't everything
    I have a pauper's itch
    So though I crave a brave
    I'll take the chief!
    He bought me a cat
    Siamese, imagine that
    He keeps making
    Fancy passes at me
    All those fine and fancy passes
    Oh joy, now I've got
    Sixty feet of brand new yacht
    He keeps making
    Fancy passes at me
    All those fine and fancy passes
    He owns New York or Spain
    But I don't know which
    He got fat in Uptown Manhattan
    Poor Cinderella's got her a fella who's rich
    Every penny, he's worth a plenty
    He owns United Airlines
    That as well?
    He owns receding hairlines
    Oh, well!
    He's not so hip
    Or smart as a whip
    But healthy, wise and wealthy
    He bought me a summer place
    Somewhere out in outer space
    He keeps making
    Fancy passes at me
    What a man you've got, Diane
    Did he buy you a mink?
    Mmmm..Passion pink
    And a Cadi too?
    Mmmm, Baby blue
    You're speaking of?
    My baby love!
    Your Romeo?
    My Daddy Dough!
    I love him a lot
    How much has he got?
    He's got a plot of ground
    He found over oil
    Oh, my how "SHEIK" we are
    He bought New Jersey
    So he could call me his girl
    Oh, man, "EFFETE" we are!
    Chocolate excites my tummy
    He bought me a firm called Yummy
    He's one of those gents
    With good bizness cents
    And quarters, half's and dollars
    Ding, dong, ain't it swell
    They just delivered the liberty bell
    How sad all those Philadelphians will be
    I'll get half of what he owns
    To keep up with Mrs. L. B. Jones
    And if he keeps making fancy passes
    I'll start holding evening classes
    I'll give him sugar and molasses
    And the life, I live
    I'll live luxuriously
    From those late and evening classes
    That sugar and molasses
    Those fine and fancy passes at me
    Oooweee
    My honey




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