Everybody Loves the Sunshine

Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Studio album by Roy Ayers
Released	May 12, 1976
Studio	Electric Lady (New York); Larrabee (West Hollywood)
Genre	R&B soul jazz
Length	39:25
Label	Polydor
Producer	Roy Ayers, Maurice Green
Roy Ayers chronology
Mystic Voyage (1975) Everybody Loves the Sunshine (1976) Vibrations (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Everybody Loves the Sunshine is a studio album by Roy Ayers released under the Roy Ayers Ubiquity umbrella. It was released through Polydor Records in 1976. It peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200 chart. ^[2] In 2016, Pitchfork placed the title track at number 72 on the "200 Best Songs of the 1970s" list. ^[3]

The song "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" is notable for its drone synth note through most of the cut. It has been covered by artists including D'Angelo, Takuya Kuroda, the Robert Glasper Experiment, and others. ^[4] It has been sampled nearly 200 times by artists including Tupac Shakur, Mary J. Blige, and Dr. Dre. ^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hey Uh What You Say Come On"	Roy Ayers, William Allen	3:45
2.	"The Golden Rod"	Roy Ayers	3:03
3.	"Keep On Walking"	Gino Vannelli	3:45
4.	"You and Me My Love"	Roy Ayers, Chano O'Ferral	3:11
5.	"The Third Eye"	Roy Ayers	6:21
6.	"It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind"	Roy Ayers	3:28
7.	"People and the World"	Roy Ayers	4:48
8.	"Everybody Loves the Sunshine"	Roy Ayers	3:59
9.	"Tongue Power"	Roy Ayers, Chano O'Ferral	3:02
10.	"Lonesome Cowboy"	Roy Ayers	4:03

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

• Roy Ayers – vibraphone, lead vocals, electric piano, synthesizer (ARP, String Ensemble), percussion, backing vocals
• Philip Woo – piano, electric piano, synthesizer (ARP, String Ensemble)
• Chano O'Ferral – congas, percussion, lead vocals
• Ronald "Head" Drayton – guitar
• John "Shaun" Solomon – electric bass
• Doug Rhodes – drums
• Chicas (Debbie Darby) ^[6] – lead vocals, backing vocals

Technical

• Leonid Lubianitsky – front cover photography

"Special thanks extended to the following: Calvin Brown, Greg Phillinganes, William Allen, Byron Miller, Ricky Lawson, Dennis Davis, Justo Almario, Lew Soloff, Diana Hayes, Edna Holt, Wayne Garfield."

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [2]	51
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [7]	10

References

1. Samuelson, Sam. "Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers". AllMusic . Retrieved December 27, 2017.
2. "Roy Ayers - Billboard 200". Billboard . Retrieved December 27, 2017.
3. "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s (7/10)". Pitchfork . August 22, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
4. "Everybody Loves the Sunshine: A Critical Analysis of Covers". Nextbop. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
5. Henkin, Andrey (2025-03-06). "Roy Ayers, Vibraphonist Who Injected Soul Into Jazz, Dies at 84". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-03-06.
6. Roy Ayers, Dave Simpson (interviewer), "How we made Roy Ayers' Everybody Loves the Sunshine", The Guardian June 19, 2017
7. "Roy Ayers - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard . Retrieved December 27, 2017.

External links

• Everybody Loves the Sunshine at Discogs (list of releases)