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. In 2016, Pitchfork placed the title track at number 72 on the "200 Best Songs of the 1970s" list.
The song "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" has been covered by artists including D'Angelo, Takuya Kuroda, the Robert Glasper Experiment, Seu Jorge and others. It has been sampled nearly 200 times by artists including Tupac Shakur, Mary J. Blige, and Dr. Dre.
Track listing
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)Roy Ayers, Dave Simpson (interviewer), "How we made Roy Ayers' Everybody Loves the Sunshine", The Guardian June 19, 2017 – lead vocals, backing vocals Technical Leonid Lubianitsky – front cover photography
Charts Chart (1976–2026) Peakposition US Billboard 200 51 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 10
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