VENUS (hitomi)
“Venus” is a 1969 song by the Dutch band Shocking Blue which the group took to number one in nine countries in 1970. In 2005, Japanese singer hitomi featured a cover as the B-side to her “Japanese Girl” single. This version was the theme to commercials for the Gillette Venus razor in 2006 featuring hitomi on a rock of a lagoon in Hawaii. (More from Wikipedia)
Everyone knows Shocking Blue’s big hit song “Venus”, a massive, worldwide Number One hit in 1970 and I believe the biggest-selling single ever by a Continental European band. A third version of “Venus” by a Japanese singer named hitomi came out in 2005; while not a hit song over here, her version was featured in commercials for the Gillette female razor line called Venus beginning in 2006 (it still is if I am not mistaken).
(August 2012)
