GRAPEFRUIT Around Grapefruit V Rare Orig UK 1968 Mono Stateside Psych Pop LP
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  $   91

 


£ 69 Sold For
May 14, 2017 Sold Date
May 7, 2017 Start Date
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Grapefruit

Around Grapefruit

Very Rare original UK LP released on Stateside Records in 1968. 1st UK Mono pressing, the sleeve is laminated on the front with flipbacks on the rear.

Matrix No's

Side One - SL 5008 A-1G

Side Two - SL 5008 B-1G

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 mid-tempo late-'60s British rock with good harmonies, creative ornate arrangements, and a very slight and very sunny psychedelic tinge. Certainly similarities to the Paul McCartney-penned tracks from the Beatles' own psych-pop 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 non-LP B-side of "Dear Delilah."
 

Tracks Are :-

Side One

1 Another Game 2:51
2 Yesterday's Shunshine 3:32
3 Elevator 2:05
4 Yes 2:20
5 C'mon Marianne 2:36
6 Lullaby 3:29

Side Two

1 Round Going Round 3:00
2 Dear Delilah 2:36
3 This Little Man 2:26
4 Ain't It Good 2:36
5 Give It One More Try 3:15
6 Someday 3:02

 

  • Released on Stateside Records in 1968

  • Catalogue Number SL 5008

  • Record is in G + condition (quite a lot of light surface marks under a strong light)

  • Sleeve is in Ex condition

 

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