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Where Are
The Shy Guys?'
Members of the former Detroit rock
group have pursued interests and
residences far and wide
HEIDI PRESS
News Editor
Today, Ron Nelson has a successful
computer company.
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Stuart Hirshfield and Mark Finn are reunited
at an Oak Park High School reunion.
o, this isn't another
singles article. This
group of Shy Guys is a
bunch of musicians, not
persons in search of
dates. The members must live up to
their former group's name; it took
nearly four months of detective work
to find any of them.
Inspired by the Beatles, but unfor-
tunately, not gaining any equal fame
or fortune, The Shy Guys was the
name of a rock and roll band formed
by four Oak Park High Schobl
students in the mid-1960s. The band's
claim to fame was a hit record, We
Gotta Go, which can occasionally be
heard today on local oldies radio
stations.
In the midst of the insane 1960s,
1966 to be exact, Mark Finn, Stuart
Hirshfield, Ron Nelson (formerly
Lefko) and Marty Lewis became local
celebrities when their record reached
the number 15 spot on the Keener
Guide, former radio station WKNR-
AM's (now WMTG) weekly listing of
the top 40 or so records in Detroit.
Sharing spots on the guide were such
songs as Frank Sinatra's Stranger in
the Night, the Temptations' Ain't Too
Proud to Beg, Percy Sledge's When A
Man Loves A Woman and the Beatles'
Paperback Writer.
Getting their record played on the
radio was the highlight of the band's
four-year existence. But according to
Lewis, now a record producer and
engineer based in California, what
the band really wanted to do was "just