The gatefold interior
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 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.
Australian track listing
Side One
- "All Right Now" (Fraser-Rodgers) - Free
- "Notting Hill Gate" (Raja Ram-Shiva) - Quintessance
- "Empty Pages" (Winwood-Capaldi) - Traffic (band)
- "I'm a Man" (Winwood-Miller) - Spencer Davis Group
- "Primrose Hill" (B. Martyn) - John and Beverley Martin
Side Two
- "Mona Bone Jakon" (Stevens) - Cat Stevens
- "You Really Got Me" (Davies) - Mott the Hoople
- "Lady D'Arbanville" (Stevens) - Cat Stevens
- "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" (J. Cliff) - Jimmy Cliff
- "Peace in the End" (Denny-Lucas) - Fotheringay
Side Four
- "Wild World" (Stevens) - Jimmy Cliff
- "Love Really Changed Me" (Miller-Grosvenor-White) - Spooky Tooth
- "Dear Mr Fantasy" (Winwood-Capaldi-Wood) - Traffic
- "Shiva's Chant" (Quintesswence-Stanley) - Quintessence
- "Anthem" (Gladwin) - Amazing Blondel
References
- ↑ Concise Oxford Dictionary, Seventh Ed., 1984
ISBN 0-19-861131-5
- ↑ Record Collector magazine, UK, December 1996 edition
- ↑ The album was actually titled Country Home and had the catalogue number ILPS 9124
- ↑ this was a slightly different version of the same song
- ↑ This catalogue number was actually issued to The Road to Ruin by John & Beverley Martyn. The track eventually appeared on the 1974 Album Struggling Man (ILPS 9235)
- ↑ This was the B-side of the 1968 single Just For You (WIP6032) which was also included on the Dave Mason compilation double album Scrapbook (Island ICD5).
- ↑ This version is faded out earlier than the source track
- ↑ This was to be Bryter Layter (ILPS 9134)
- ↑ This was Up Above Our Heads which was not released in the UK; a single version was issued on the European mainland only