Shy Boy

Infobox Single
Name = Shy Boy


Artist = Bananarama
from Album = Deep Sea Skiving
B-side = Don't Call Us...
Released = June 1982
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = August 1981
Genre = Pop, New Wave
Length =
Label = London Records
Writer = Jolley & Swain
Producer = Jolley & Swain
Last single = Really Saying Something
(1982)
This single = "Shy Boy"
(1982)
Next single = "Cheers Then"
(1982)"Shy Boy" is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It appears on their 1983 debut album "Deep Sea Skiving" and was released as its second single. It was written and produced by the production team of Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and marked the first in a long line of studio collaborations between them and Bananarama.

Released in summer 1982, "Shy Boy" became the third consecutive single by Bananarama to hit the top-five, reaching number four in the UK singles chart. It also was a success in Australia, where it reached number two, becoming their first top 40 hit in that country. Top-ten success also followed in New Zealand and Canada. "Shy Boy" charted well on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart and was the first of Bananarama's singles to dent the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eighty-three. The song was known as "Shy Boy (Don't it make you feel good)" in the USA.

The music video, directed by then Ultravox's Midge Ure and Chris Cross, featured the girls giving a nerdy guy a make-over into a stud. When his new look attracts the attention of a sexy secretary, the girls get their revenge by dousing him with a bucket of water. It stars Terry Sharpe of The Adventures, who was Sara Dallin's boyfriend at the time.

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