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The Velvet Underground - Heroin

And I guess I just don't know.

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The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says

Song from the album 'VU'. Stephanie says that she wants to know Why she's given half her life, to people she hates now Stephanie says when answering the phone What country shall I say is calling from across the world...

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The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs - Live

The Velvet Underground play Venus in Furs.

The Velvets Biography

The Velvets were an American doo wop group from Odessa in Ector County in west Texas. The African American quintet was formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high school English teacher, with four of his students. Roy Orbison heard the group and signed them to Monument Records in 1960. Their first release was a tune called "That Lucky Old Sun". Their biggest hit single was "Tonight (Could Be the Night)", which hit #26 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. "That Lucky Old Sun" (#46) and "Tonight (Could Be the Night)" (#50) made brief appearances in the UK Singles Chart in 1961. The follow-up, "Laugh", peaked at number 90, and after a half-dozen further singles the group disbanded.

Their complete recorded output runs to just thirty songs, which were collected on one compact disc and released on Ace Records in 1996.

Johnson sometimes appears in nostalgia concerts.

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