Everybody Loves the Sunshine
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.
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.;Roy Ayers Ubiquity
- Roy Ayers – vibraphone, lead vocals, electric piano, synthesizer, percussion, backing vocals
- Philip Woo – piano, electric piano, synthesizer
- Chano O'Ferral – congas, percussion, lead vocals
- Ronald "Head" Drayton – guitar
- John "Shaun" Solomon – electric bass
- Doug Rhodes – drums
- Chicas – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Leonid Lubianitsky – front cover photography