You Can All Join In

Infobox Album |
Name = You Can All Join In
Type = Compilation album
Longtype = (Sampler)
Artist = Various Artists


Released = Spring 1969
Recorded = 1968
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Island IWPS 2
Producer = Various
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8sr67ue080jd link]
Chronology = Series
Last album =
This album = "You Can All Join In"
(1969)
Next album = "Nice Enough To Eat"
(1969)

"You Can All Join In" is a sampler album, released by Island Records in 1969, arguably instrumental in breaking world-class bands such as Free, Jethro Tull and Traffic to a wider audience.

It was combined with "Nice Enough To Eat" for a CD Re-release in August 1992 entitled "Nice Enough To Join In" (Island Records IMCD 150).

Track listing

ide One

#"A Song For Jeffrey" (Anderson) – Jethro Tull – (from "This Was") (ILPS 9085)
#"Sunshine Help Me" (Wright) – Spooky Tooth – (from "It’s All About Spooky Tooth") (ILPS 9080)
#"I’m a Mover" (Rodgers/Fraser) – Free – (from "Tons of Sobs") (ILPS 9089)
#"What’s That Sound" [This song is sometimes titled "For What It's Worth"] (Stills) – Art – (from "Supernatural Fairy Tales") (ILP 967)
#"Pearly Queen" (Winwood/Capaldi) – Tramline – (from "Moves of Vegetable Centuries") (ILPS 9095)
#"You Can All Join In" (Mason) – Traffic – (from "Traffic") (ILPS 9081T)

ide Two

#"Meet on the Ledge" (Thompson) – Fairport Convention – (from "What We Did on Our Holidays") (ILPS 9092)
#"Rainbow Chaser" (Spyropoulos/Campbell-Lyons) – Nirvana – (from "All of Us") (ILPS 9087)
#"Dusty" – (Martyn) - John Martyn – (from "The Tumbler") (ILPS 9091)
#"I’ll Go Girl" (Ritchie/Ellis/Hughes) – Clouds – (from "Scrapbook") (ILPS 9100)
#"Somebody Help Me" (Edwards [This was Jackie Edwards, also under contract to Island records and author of several other hits [http://www.uppers.org/showArticle.asp?article=790] ] ) – Spencer Davis Group – (from "The Best of the Spencer Davis Group") (ILPS 9070)
#"Gasoline Alley" (Weaver) – Wynder K. Frog – (from "Out of the Frying Pan") (ILPS 9082)

The Album Cover

Designed by Hipgnosis and although not as imaginative as some of their later work, the front cover photograph was taken in Hyde Park and is said to feature "every single one of the Island artistes ... bleary eyed after a party." [http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?93023]
The rear cover consists merely of a track listing and monochrome images of the covers of eight of the sampled albums (Tracks 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 & 2.6).

References