Venus In Blue Jeans

Album

Venus In Blue Jeans

Label

Ace Records

Genre

Dance-pop

Composer(s)

Howard Greenfield;Jack Keller

Entered Chart

Aug 18, 1962

Peak Date

Oct 6, 1962

Released

1962

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Ace 8001

B-Side

Highway Bound

Predating the Shocking Blue recording "Venus" by seven years, this track was written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller. And the Venus concerned was a terrestrial one named Eileen Berner whom Keller had dated. >> Jimmy Clanton was one of the few white singers to emerge from New Orleans in the 1950s. In 1958 he hit #4 with "Just A Dream," an R&B track co-written with Cosimo Matassa, who recorded Fats Domino. The following year, he starred in a movie called Go Johnny Go!, which set him up as a teen idol. "Venus In Blue Jeans" fit this image, with Clanton singing about a heavenly teenage girl here on Earth. He was 21 when he recorded it; it was his last Top 40 hit. In the UK, this was a #4 hit for the British singer Mark Wynter, whose version was released soon after Clanton's. This is the kind of song that fared well in 1962: innocent, written by seasoned songwriters, devoid of subtext, recorded by a young singer who was a part-time movie star. The Beatles would soon disrupt this market with more adventurous songs they wrote themselves.

She's Venus in blue jeans
Mona Lisa with a ponytail
She's walkin' talkin' work of art
She's the girl who stole my heart

My Venus in blue jeans
Is the Cinderella I adore
She's my very special angel, too
A fairy tale come true

They say there's seven wonders in the world
But what they say is out of date
There's more than seven wonders in the world
I just met number eight

My Venus in blue jeans
Is everything I hoped she'd be
A teenage goddess from above
And she belongs to me

My Venus in blue jeans
Is everything I hoped she'd be
A teenage goddess from above
And she belongs to me