The most successful and best-known recording of the track was by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959, when it reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

[1] The song was covered in the United Kingdom by Dickie Valentine, and it spent a week at No.

20 in the Singles Chart in May 1959, the week before Frankie Avalon reached the Top 20 with his original version.

That helped revive the singer's career, because it had been waning prior to its release, but it was Avalon's last Billboard Hot 100 hit.

"Venus" was also featured in Cranium Command (1989–2005), an attraction at Epcot's Wonders of Life Pavilion (now closed) at Walt Disney World.