Too Shy

Infobox Single
Name = Too Shy


Artist = Kajagoogoo
from Album = White Feathers
B-side = 12": "Take Another View"
7", 12": "Too Shy (Instrum.)"
Released = 1983
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = 1982
Genre = Pop, New Wave
Length = 3:45
Label = EMI
Writer = Nick Beggs
Limahl
Kajagoogoo
Producer = Nick Rhodes
Colin Thurston
[ Certification = ]
Last single = "The Fear Machine"
as Art Nouveau
(1982)
This single = "Too Shy"
(1983)
Next single = "Ooh to Be Ah"
(1983)"Too Shy" is a song written and recorded by English New Wave/pop music band Kajagoogoo in 1983. Released as the first single from their debut album "White Feathers", the song was an immediate hit in the UK, spending two weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart. Assisted by heavy rotation on MTV, the song later became a success in the United States, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. "Too Shy" is Kajagoogoo's only significant hit in the U.S., where the band is widely regarded as a one-hit wonder. In the UK, however, Kajagoogoo had some more hits after "Too Shy", including two Top 10 hit singles: "Ooh to Be Ah" and "Big Apple", both in 1983, but the latter taken from their follow-up album "Islands".

The track was produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and Colin Thurston, who had produced Duran Duran's first two albums. In 2006, "Too Shy" was ranked number twenty-seven on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80's".

The 12" maxi single's B-side, "Take Another View", a non-album track, often performed live, was included on the 2004 re-issue of "White Feathers", which contained several bonus tracks, including the instrumental version of "Too Shy", originally featured on the B-sides of both the 7" and 12" singles.

The song is also included in the computer game "" in the Sims' language, Simlish. An instrumental version of this song is also featured in the hit game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories", on the fictional "Wave 103" station which plays New Wave tracks.

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