{{Infobox album | name = You Can All Join In | type = compilation | longtype = (Sampler) | artist = Various Artists | cover = Various-YouCanAllJoinIn.jpg | alt = | released = March 1969<ref name="western">{{cite journal |last1=Weston |first1=Penny |last2=Jones |first2=Brian K. |title=From Gutbucket to Beatle music – the new discs |journal=Western Daily Press |date=20 March 1969 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/911506003 |access-date=14 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Lincolnshire Echo">{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Alan |title=New Discs |journal=Lincolnshire Echo |date=12 March 1969 |page=6 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/900673892/?match=1&terms=%22you%20can%20all%20join%20in%22 |access-date=14 December 2024}}</ref> | recorded = 1966 – 1968 | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock | length = | label = Island IWPS 2 | producer = Various | chronology = Series | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Nice Enough to Eat | next_year = 1969 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r227517|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''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.<ref>Martin Roach (ed.), ''The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums'', 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-7535-1700-0}}, p.346</ref>
The album is described at Allmusic.com as:<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/you-can-all-join-in-r227517/review ''You Can All Join In'' at Allmusic.com]</ref>
{{cquote| (...) 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}}
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'' (Island Records IMCD 150).
==Track listing== ;Side one #"A Song for Jeffrey" (Ian Anderson) – Jethro Tull – (Alternative mix, original version from ''This Was'') (ILPS 9085) #"Sunshine Help Me" (Gary Wright) – Spooky Tooth – (from ''It’s All About Spooky Tooth'') (ILPS 9080) #"I’m a Mover" (Paul Rodgers, Andy Fraser) – Free – (from ''Tons of Sobs'') (ILPS 9089) #"What’s That Sound" (Stephen Stills) – Art<ref>The band "Art" had reformed as Spooky Tooth by the time the sampler was released</ref> – (from ''Supernatural Fairy Tales'') (ILP 967) #"Pearly Queen" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) – Tramline – (from ''Moves of Vegetable Centuries'') (ILPS 9095) #"You Can All Join In" (Dave Mason) – Traffic – (from ''Traffic'') (ILPS 9081T)
;Side two #"Meet on the Ledge" (Richard Thompson) – Fairport Convention – (from ''What We Did on Our Holidays'') (ILPS 9092) #"Rainbow Chaser" (Alex Spyropoulos, Patrick Campbell-Lyons) – Nirvana – (from ''All of Us'') (ILPS 9087) #"Dusty" – (Martyn) - John Martyn – (from ''The Tumbler'') (ILPS 9091) #"I’ll Go Girl" (Billy Ritchie, Ian Ellis, Harry Hughes) – Clouds – (from ''Scrapbook'') (ILPS 9100) #"Somebody Help Me" (Jackie Edwards) – Spencer Davis Group – (from ''The Best of the Spencer Davis Group'') (ILPS 9070) #"Gasoline Alley" (Mick Weaver) – Wynder K. Frog – (from ''Out of the Frying Pan'') (ILPS 9082)
==The album cover== Designed by Hipgnosis, 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creativematch.com/viewnews/?93023 |title=creativematch: FEATURE: Meet the man who puts the creative spin on Island Records |publisher=www.creativematch.com |access-date=2009-12-16 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> 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).
===Artists shown=== thumb|centre|400px|Key to artists on the cover <ref>{{cite journal |year= 1996 |title= King Crimson to Bumpers - Island Rock LPs, Part 4|journal= Record Collector |issue= 208 |pages= 125}}</ref> {{columns-list|colwidth=18em| # Clive Bunker # Neil Hubbard # Gary Wright # Glenn Cornick # Bruce Rowland # Martin Barre<ref>Martin Barre was not a member of Jethro Tull when the sampled track ''A Song for Jeffrey'' was recorded.</ref> # Mick Weaver # Ian Anderson # Patrick Campbell-Lyons # Ashley Hutchings # Alex Spyropoulos # Chris Wood # Richard Thompson # Ian Matthews # Steve Winwood # Ian A. Anderson<ref>At the time Ian A. Anderson was signed to Liberty Records and did not play on any of the sampled tracks. His music appears on the sampler album Son of Gutbucket.</ref> # Jim Capaldi # Mike Harrison # Martin Lamble # Simon Nicol # Harry Hughes # Rebop Kwaku Baah # Chris Mercer # Simon Kirke # Paul Rodgers # Billy Ritchie # Andy Fraser # Ian Ellis # Sandy Denny }}
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://s3.excoboard.com/exco/archive.php?ac=t&forumid=29211&date=07-08-2011&t=774329-1 The Original Mixed-Up Label: Island Records Sampler Albums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003171125/http://s3.excoboard.com/exco/archive.php?ac=t&forumid=29211&date=07-08-2011&t=774329-1 |date=2011-10-03 }}
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