islands prog rock samplers

If anything summarises the birth of progressive rock and all it would entail at the end of the 60's it would be the Sampler series put out by Island Records. The hugely popular budget price of less than 75p (15/6 old UK) meant the poorest of students, who usually were the poorest rock fans could hear a selection of all the UK artists released on Island Records, who along with Chrysalis were major players for new music.
In 1970 Island were then to release probably the most popular of all three samplers, 'Bumpers' double album. This was rolled out at twice the price of the previous releases.
In 1969 Island was a major record company who actually took an interest in giving people some value and inviting their audiences into hear their other artists they'd maybe not otherwise know. This useful bit of PR didn't appear again until the Punk scene some 7 or 8 years later with some independent labels doing similar. After that and with the birth of the CD, prices would rise and keep rising as they'd grab every bit of your hard earned cash they could get.

You Can All Join In (1969)
Side 1
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 Garfunkel
5. Pearly Queen - Tramline
6. You Can All Join In - Traffic

Side 2
7. Meet On The Ledge - Fairport Convention
8. Rainbow Chaser - Nirvana
9. Dusty - John Martyn
10. I'll Go Girl - Clouds
11. Somebody Help Me - Spencer Davis Group
12. Gasoline Alley - Wynder K. Frog

John Matyn's Dusty a similar sound to Jethro Tull both vocally and instrumentally. Was it indeed Ian Anderson on flute?

Nice Enough To Eat (1969)
Side 1
1. Cajun Woman - Fairport Convention
2. At The Crossroads - Mott The Hoople
3. Better by You, Better Than Me - Spooky Tooth
4. We Used To Know - Jethro Tull
5. Woman - Free
6. I Keep Singing That Same Old Song - Heavy Jelly

Side 2
7. Sing Me A Song That I Know - Blodwyn Pig
8. Forty Thousand Headmen - Traffic
9. Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake
10. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
11. Gungamai - Quintessence
12. Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal - Dr. Strangely Strange

Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake. A surviving outake of the track rather than the actual track that appeared on the album.

Bumpers double album (1970)

Side 1
Every Mother's Son - Traffic
Love - Bronco
I Am The Walrus - Spooky Tooth
Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga - Quintessence

Side 2
Thunderbuck Ram - Mott the Hoople
Nothing To Say - Jethro Tull
Going Back West - Jimmy Cliff
Send Your Son To Die - Blodwyn Pig
Little Woman - Dave Mason

Side 3
Go Out And Get It - John & Beverley Martyn
Cadence & Cascade - King Crimson
Reaching Out On All Sides - If
Oh I Wept - Free
Hazey Jane - Nick Drake

Side 4
Walk Awhile - Fairport Convention
Maybe You're Right - Cat Stevensv Island - Renaissance
The Sea - Fotheringay
Take Me To Your Leader - Clouds (intended to be on their Chrysalis album to be released Autumn '70)
Here's the little remembered Bronco track Love.