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