Biography
Among serious British Invasion collectors, the Boys Blue’s May 1965 HMV single pairing “Take a Heart” with “You Got What I Want” has long sparked mistaken assumptions. Because the Sorrows also cut both numbers, many assumed the Boys Blue were merely an alias or a precursor to that band; the shared authorship of the tracks by Miki Dallon, who supplied the Sorrows with four songs during their short career, only reinforced the error. In reality the two acts were unrelated British ensembles, and the Boys Blue’s HMV release actually preceded the Sorrows’ renditions. The material itself consists of strong, hard-edged R&B/pop hybrids that the Boys Blue executed capably, yet the Sorrows’ interpretations remain the more authoritative versions. No further singles appeared under the Boys Blue name, although lead singer Jeff Elroy issued a 1966 Philips record billed to Jeff Elroy and the Boys Blue. Both sides have subsequently surfaced on various anthologies devoted to overlooked British Invasion recordings.