You Can All Join In


You Can All Join In is a budget priced sampler album, released in the UK by Island Records in 1969. It was priced at 14 shillings and 6 pence, and reached no. 18 on the UK Albums Chart that year.
It was arguably instrumental in breaking world-class bands such as Free, Jethro Tull and Traffic to a wider audience. The album is described at Allmusic.com as:
It was combined with the follow-up, Nice Enough To Eat for a CD Re-release in August 1992 entitled Nice Enough To Join In.

Track listing

;Side one
  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" – Jethro Tull –
  2. "Sunshine Help Me" – Spooky Tooth –
  3. "I’m a Mover" – Free –
  4. "What’s That Sound" – Art –
  5. "Pearly Queen" – Tramline –
  6. "You Can All Join In" – Traffic –
;Side two
  1. "Meet on the Ledge" – Fairport Convention –
  2. "Rainbow Chaser" – Nirvana –
  3. "Dusty" – - John Martyn –
  4. "I’ll Go Girl" – Clouds –
  5. "Somebody Help Me" – Spencer Davis Group –
  6. "Gasoline Alley" – Wynder K. Frog –

    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." The rear cover consists merely of a track listing and monochrome images of the covers of eight of the sampled albums.

Artists shown