Too Shy

"Too Shy"
Single by Kajagoogoo
from the album White Feathers
B-side
  • "Too Shy (Instrumental)" (7", 12")
  • "Take Another View" (12")
ReleasedJanuary 1983
Genre
Length3:45
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Kajagoogoo singles chronology
"Fear Machine"
(1981)
"Too Shy"
(1983)
"Ooh to Be Ah"
(1983)
Music video
"Too Shy" on YouTube
"Too Shy '92 Remix"
Single by Limahl
from the album Love Is Blind
B-side
  • "Too Shy (Remix '92) (Acapella)"
  • 7"
Released1992
Length4:12
LabelBellaphon
Songwriter(s)
  • Steve Askew
  • Nick Beggs
  • Stuart Neale
  • Jez Strode
  • Christopher Hamill
Producer(s)Limahl
Limahl singles chronology
"Maybe This Time"
(1992)
"Too Shy '92 Remix"
(1992)
"Love Is Blind"
(1992)

"Too Shy" is a song written and recorded by the British band Kajagoogoo, released in January 1983. The first single from their debut album White Feathers, the song was an immediate hit and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks. It was also very successful in other European countries and Japan, spending five weeks at number one in Germany, also reaching number one in Belgium and Ireland, as well as reaching number two in France and Switzerland, and number four in Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands. In the UK, it became the 13th best-selling single of 1983.

Assisted by heavy rotation on MTV, the song later became a success in the United States, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Too Shy" is Kajagoogoo's only significant hit in the US, where the band is widely regarded as a one-hit wonder. In the UK, Kajagoogoo had further hits, including two more top 10 singles: "Ooh to Be Ah" and "Big Apple", both in 1983.