Shy Boy , Katie Melua
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SHY BOY ALBUM INFO
Artist: Katie Melua
Album: Shy Boy
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"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 Jolley & Swain|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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Track list:
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Fancy (live version)
- Shy Boy
- Piece by Piece
- Call Off the Search
- The Closest Thing to Crazy
- Nine Million Bicycles
- Pictures
- Crawling Up a Hill
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