Remember these? (you’re older than you look!) Albums bought when they came out! 1969

 ISLAND SAMPLER

 

VA - You Can All Join In [1969] + Nice Enough To Eat [1969] (2 x CDs)

You Can All Join In is a budget-priced sampler album from Island Records released in 1969. Priced at 14 shillings and 6 pence (£0.72), it reached no. 18 on the UK Albums Chart. The album is described at Allmusic.com as - one of those seamless compilations that simply cannot be improved upon. A dozen tracks highlight the best - and that is the best - of Island's recent and forthcoming output. 

Nice Enough to Eat is a budget priced sampler album released by Island Records in 1969. Continuing the policy set by its predecessor You Can All Join In, the album presented tracks from the latest albums by established artists including Free, Traffic, and Jethro Tull, and introduced tasters from newer signings to the label, notably Nick Drake and King Crimson. The inclusion of the Nick Drake track, "Time Has Told Me", has been credited with providing the first opportunity for many record buyers to hear Drake's music. It was priced as low as 14 shillings and 6 pence (£0.72), less than half of the standard album price at the time. The album is described at Allmusic.com as a "somewhat incoherent sampler of folk-rock, prog rock, and prog-tinged hard rock", but with a "stellar artist lineup". (Wikipedia)

You Can All Join In - Traffic . . . .go on if you play one song today make it this (twice)

and it introduced me to this man . . . . 

Dusty - John Martyn

who was in turn inspired by this man . . . . . 

Nick Drake - Time Has Told Mer

Quintessence - Gunga Mai

just as I saw them at The Who at The Oval concert . . . . . . far out man!

First time I ever bought this . . . . . (several times since of course)

Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge

Speaking of flashback Classic hits | Spirit - I Got a Line on You

 Spirit - I Got a Line on You

second perhaps only to Fresh Garbage comes this early ‘hit’ for me a classic Spirit track (check the guitar solo a stone cold classic and favourite sound ) and I loved this when it came out. . . . . I found them by listening to Rock Machine Turns You On (Taj Mahal, Spirit, Bob and Leonard I think, the first compilation sampler album for under 30 bob (ask your Brit grandparents! think it was 17/6d) you could buy with new artists on followed up with the British 'You Can All Join In' (Traffic, Jethro Tull, John Martyn, Spooky Tooth et al) then Gutbucket (12/6d) a heavier sounding blues comp (Captain Beefheart!) and its bastard son Son of Gutbucket - Roy Harper, The Groundhogs) Interesting quite how many bands I followed from those samplers and still do today

Top Hat's "Live Music Archives"

MOBY GRAPE! - 1967 - Urbanaspirines

Around the late sixties there were number of compilation album of bands that we maybe wouldn't have heard in the UK and also cutting edge bands to promote their following over here too. Rock Machine Turns You On (and its sister follow up Rock Machine Loves You - although I didn't get that one for some reason)  and 'You Can All Join In' were budget priced and essential listening and especially The Rock Machine Turns You On which was the first bargain priced sampler album. It was released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany and a number of other European countries in 1968 as part of an international marketing campaign by Columbia Records, it cost 14/- about half the price of a standard LP then (about 75p). This was how I discovered Moby Grape, Spirit, amongst others. Their eponymous debut remains their signature statement

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One of the best '60s San Francisco bands, Moby Grape, were also one of the most versatile. Although they are most often identified with the psychedelic scene, their specialty was combining all sorts of 

roots music -- folk, blues, country, and classic rock & roll -- with some Summer of Love vibes and multi-layered, triple-guitar arrangements. All of those elements only truly coalesced for their 1967 debut LP. Although subsequent albums had more good moments than many listeners are aware of, a combination of personal problems and bad management effectively killed off the group by the end of the '60s. The album discussed here was rmematered and rereleased in 2007

Moby Grape 1967 - Urbanaspirines

* Rock Machine Turns You On track listing CBS 1968 

Side 1[edit]

1. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" - Bob Dylan - from the LP John Wesley Harding
2. "Can't Be So Bad" - Moby Grape - from the LP Wow
3. "Fresh Garbage" - Spirit - from the LP Spirit
4. "I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar" - The United States of America - from the LP The United States of America
5. "Time of the Season" - The Zombies – from the LP Odessey and Oracle
6. "Turn on a Friend" – The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – from the LP The Great Conspiracy
7. "Sisters of Mercy" – Leonard Cohen – from the LP The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Side 2[edit]

1. "My Days Are Numbered" – Blood, Sweat and Tears – from the LP Child Is Father to the Man
2. "Dolphins Smile" – The Byrds – from the LP The Notorious Byrd Brothers
3. "Scarborough Fair / Canticle" – Simon and Garfunkel – from the LP Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
4. "Statesboro Blues" – Taj Mahal – from the LP Taj Mahal
5. "Killing Floor" – The Electric Flag – from the LP A Long Time Comin'
6. "Nobody’s Got Any Money In The Summer" – Roy Harper – from the LP Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
7. "Come Away Melinda" – Tim Rose – from the LP Tim Rose
8. "Flames" – Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera – from the LP Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

Side one

1. "A Song for Jeffrey" (Ian Anderson) – Jethro Tull – (Alternative mix, original version from This Was) (ILPS 9085)
2. "Sunshine Help Me" (Gary Wright) – Spooky Tooth – (from It’s All About Spooky Tooth) (ILPS 9080)
3. "I’m a Mover" (Paul Rodgers, Andy Fraser) – Free – (from  Tons of Sobs) (ILPS 9089)
4. "What’s That Sound"^[4] (Stephen Stills) – Art^[5] – (from Supernatural Fairy Tales) (ILP 967)
5. "Pearly Queen" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) – Tramline – (from Moves of Vegetable Centuries) (ILPS 9095)
6. "You Can All Join In" (Dave Mason) – Traffic – (from Traffic) (ILPS 9081T)

Side two

1. "Meet on the Ledge" (Richard Thompson) – Fairport Convention – (from What We Did on Our Holidays) (ILPS 9092)
2. "Rainbow Chaser" (Alex Spyropoulos, Patrick Campbell-Lyons) – Nirvana – (from All of Us) (ILPS 9087)
3. "Dusty" – (Martyn) - John Martyn – (from The Tumbler) (ILPS 9091)
4. "I’ll Go Girl" (Billy Ritchie, Ian Ellis, Harry Hughes) – Clouds – (from Scrapbook) (ILPS 9100)
5. "Somebody Help Me" (Jackie Edwards) – Spencer Davis Group – (from The Best of the Spencer Davis Group) (ILPS 9070)
6. "Gasoline Alley" (Mick Weaver) – Wynder K. Frog – (from Out of the Frying Pan) (ILPS 9082)

Seminal influences upon my taste both . . . . . . . .