Bumpers (album)

Bumpers is 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 basketball-style shoes on the front of the album cover and 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 stump of a tree on a seemingly wet and gloomy day, without any identification.

[2] Unlike its predecessors You Can All Join In and Nice Enough to Eat, there are no credits for cover art.

The English version of the album came out in two pressings, first with the pink label and "i" logo, and later with the palm motif on a white background and pink rim, each version with some minor variations in the production of individual tracks.

The gatefold interior