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Album Details: Around Grapefruit

Release Date:01/01/1968
Label:Repertoire
UPC:4009910504420

Track List: Around Grapefruit

  1. Another Game
  2. Yesterday's Sunshine
  3. Elevator
  4. Yes
  5. C'mon Marianne
  6. Lullaby
  1. Round Going Round
  2. Dear Delilah
  3. This Little Man
  4. Ain't It Good
  5. Give It One More Try
  6. Someday

Pro Reviews: Around Grapefruit

  • All Music Guide

    Like the fruit after it was named, Grapefruit's debut album was at times too sweet, but was on the whole a promising and worthy effort. Devoted almost wholly to songs written by leader George Alexander, the record featured tuneful, upbeat midtempo late'60s British rock with good harmonies, creative ornate arrangements, and a very slight and very sunny psychedelic tinge. Certainly similarities to the Paul McCartneypenned tracks from the Beatles' own psychpop era are evident, and if George Alexander's songs weren't in nearly the same league as McCartney's, well, no one working the style was in McCartney's league. Grapefruit was at their best on the occasional songs in which they reached into slightly darker and more melancholy territory, particularly when they made creative use of strings, organ, baroque keyboards, and Mellotron, as on "This Little Man" and "Dear Delilah" and the instrumental "Theme for Twiggy." The latter tune sounds like something that could have been killer had words ...been devised; as it is, it seems like something that wasn't quite seen through to completion. There's also the Four Seasons cover "C'mon Marianne," which, although it wasn't one of their better tracks, was (along with "Dear Delilah") one of their two small U.K. hits. The CD reissue on Repertoire adds "Dead Boot," the nonLP Bside of "Dear Delilah." - Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Grapefruit

Grapefruit were one of the better Beatlesque late-'60s British pop-rock bands. In 1968 they seemed on the way to stardom, with a couple of small hit British singles and, more importantly, some help from the Beatles themselves. Led by George Alexander, brother of the Easybeats' George Young, the group were at the outset cheerful harmony pop/rockers with similarities to t... Read more