• Pink Elephant • • • Associated acts, Galaxy-Lin, Antilope, Livin' Blues Past members † Fred de Wilde Klaasje van der Wal † Cor van der Beek † Leo van de Ketterij Martin van Wijk Henk Smitskamp Shocking Blue was a Dutch band, formed in in 1967. The band spawned a number of hits throughout the, including 'Never Marry a Railroad Man', 'Mighty Joe', ', 'Blossom Lady', 'Inkpot' and '. The latter became their biggest and went to No. 1 on the U.S. And many other countries during 1969 and 1970.

The band had sold 13.5 million by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974, during the final years of the, and other counterculture movements around the world. An excerpt from Venus Problems playing this file? Shocking Blue was founded in 1967. Other members of the group at this time were Fred de Wilde, Klaasje van der Wal, and Cor van der Beek. The group had a minor hit in 1968 with 'Lucy Brown is Back in Town'. After de Wilde left in 1968, took over the vocals and the group charted a world-wide hit with the song ', which peaked at No. 3 in the in the autumn of 1969.

The song was released in America and Great Britain at the end of the year, and it reached No. Download Video Woodstock 1999 Stage on this page. 1 on the in February 1970. It subsequently sold 350,000 copies in, and topped the U.S. Chart for three weeks, the first song from the Netherlands to do so. It sold over one million copies there by January 1970, and received a awarded by the. Free Burn Fat Feed Muscle Success. Global sales exceeded five million copies. The song was based on 'The Banjo Song' (1963).

Other hits include ' in 1968/69 and 'Long and Lonesome Road' (often mistakenly named as 'Long Lonesome Road') in 1969. Shocking Blue's songs also received quite a large amount of radio airplay on Dutch channels. 'Venus' was followed by 'Mighty Joe' (flip-side 'Wild Wind') in 1969 and 'Never Marry a Railroad Man' (flip-side 'Roll Engine Roll') in 1970, which both sold over a million records, the latter also become a top ten hit in several countries around the world. Latter songs – including 'Hello Darkness' (1970), 'Shocking You', 'Blossom Lady' and 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind' (1971), 'Inkpot', 'Rock in the Sea' and 'Eve and the Apple' (1972) and 'Oh Lord' (1973) were successful in Europe, Latin America and Asia, but failed to chart in the U.S. In 1974 both Robbie Van Leeuwen and later Mariska Veres left the group, leading to their split.