Named by John Lennon after a Yoko Ono book "Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings", the band formed in 1967 and by the time of this, their 1969 debut album, consisted of songwriter and ex-Flamin' Groovie George Alexander, and three ex-members of Tony Rivers & The Castaways (Peter and Geoff Swettenham and John Perry).

It's a very sweet, strong debut, much in the vein of Tony River & The Castaways and Harmony Grass (who were also signed to and recorded for RCA in GB). The excellent and timeless GB summery pop singles "Dear Delilah" (complete with excellent phased drums), "Elevator", "Round Going Round" and "C'mon Marianne" are all here (the latter, a cover of a Four Seasons hit if I remember correctly, being the only non-band composition on the album) along with the equally good European single "Someday". Of the other tracks, "Lullaby" could almost be an unknown Beatles out-take from the "Sgt Pepper"/ Magical Mystery Tour" era whilst "Yes" and "Theme for Twiggy" were… more »

Named by John Lennon after a Yoko Ono book "Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings", the band formed in 1967 and by the time of this, their 1969 debut album, consisted of songwriter and ex-Flamin' Groovie George Alexander, and three ex-members of Tony Rivers & The Castaways (Peter and Geoff Swettenham and John Perry).

It's a very sweet, strong debut, much in the vein of Tony River & The Castaways and Harmony Grass (who were also signed to and recorded for RCA in GB). The excellent and timeless GB summery pop singles "Dear Delilah" (complete with excellent phased drums), "Elevator", "Round Going Round" and "C'mon Marianne" are all here (the latter, a cover of a Four Seasons hit if I remember correctly, being the only non-band composition on the album) along with the equally good European single "Someday". Of the other tracks, "Lullaby" could almost be an unknown Beatles out-take from the "Sgt Pepper"/ Magical Mystery Tour" era whilst "Yes" and "Theme for Twiggy" were B-sides of "Elevator" and "Someday" respectively.

On the original 1993 Repetoire CD issue you only got one extra track in the form of "Dead Boot", non-album B-side of "Dear Delilah". Here you get a shed-load of mono single mixes of all the A and B-sides plus a couple of foreign language versions. Most excellent dude.

If you like sunshine pop or mid-late 60s music you'll certainly love this album.