| Product Code: | SIL 107/8 |
| Artist: | Various |
| Origin: | New Zealand |
| Label: | Island Records (1970) |
| Format: | 2 X LP |
| Availability: | In Stock |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
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| Genre: | Pop U |
Very smart clean double vinyl LP, Compilation has minor 2 cm mark on top left.
Bumpers was a double sampler album from Island Records, released in Europe and Australasia in 1970; there were minor variations in track listings within Europe but the Australian release was fundamentally different. The title refers to the training shoes which can be seen on the front of the album cover but there may also be a less obvious reference to the meaning "unusually large, abundant or excellent".[1] The album is left to present itself; there are no sleeve notes, the gatefold interior consists of a photograph showing publicity shots of the featured acts attached to the bole of a tree, without any identification. This image is flanked by the track listings, but even there, the information given is unreliable.[2] Unlike its predecessors You Can All Join In and Nice Enough To Eat, there are no credits for cover art (the cover art was by Tony Wright, his first sleeve for Island), photography or design. The impression is left that the album's production was rushed, presumably to leave enough lead-time to promote the albums featured. The English version of the album came out in two pressings, one with the pink label and "i" logo, the other with the label displaying a palm motif on a white background and a pink rim, each version with some minor variations in the production of individual tracks.
| A1 | –Free | All Right Now | |
| A2 | –Quintessence (3) | Notting Hill Gate | |
| A3 | –Traffic | Empty Pages | |
| A4 | –The Spencer Davis Group | I'm A Man | |
| A5 | –John And Beverley Martyn* | Primrose Hill | |
| B1 | –Cat Stevens | Mona Bone Jakon | |
| B2 | –Mott The Hoople | You Really Got Me | |
| B3 | –Cat Stevens | Lady D'Arbanville | |
| B4 | –Jimmy Cliff | Wonderful World Beautiful People | |
| B5 | –Fotheringay | Peace In The End | |
| C1 | –Spooky Tooth | I Am The Walrus | |
| C2 | –If (6) | The Promised Land | |
| C3 | –Tramline (2) | Somewhere Down The Line | |
| C4 | –Alan Bown* | Loosen Up | |
| C5 | –Fairport Convention | Crazy Man Michael | |
| D1 | –Jimmy Cliff | Wild World | |
| D2 | –Spooky Tooth | Love Really Changed Me | |
| D3 | –Traffic | Dear Mr. Fantasy | |
| D4 | –Quintessence (3) | Shiva's Chant | |
| D5 | –The Amazing Blondel* | Anthem |
