Everybody Loves the Sunshine

CTL-E-5292 · Work · album · 1976

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Everybody Loves the Sunshine is a studio album credited to Roy Ayers Ubiquity, released by Polydor Records on May 12, 1976. Produced by Roy Ayers with Maurice Green and recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York and Larrabee Sound in West Hollywood, the album peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard 200. Its title track — built on Ayers's vibraphone and piano and a sustained synthesizer drone — became his signature song; Ayers later described its creation as spontaneous. The song has been sampled more than 100 times, in records by Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, and Mos Def among many others, and covered by artists including D'Angelo and the Robert Glasper Experiment. In 2016 Pitchfork placed the title track at No. 72 on its list of the 200 best songs of the 1970s. The album remains the defining statement of Ayers's jazz-funk years.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-15 under CTL-GOV-006 (Next Slate D3). Gate A clear (no existing Work of this name). Gate B met (3 sources incl. Pitchfork + Billboard chart data). BILLING CARRIED EXACTLY: the album is credited to Roy Ayers Ubiquity (Polydor, 1976); the authored_by edge runs to Roy Ayers personally with the billing stated in the edge evidence — no separate Ubiquity entity is staged. Statistics carried: Billboard 200 peak No. 51; title track sampled 'more than 100 times' (NPR, 2025). CONFLICT DISCLOSED: a WhoSampled-derived figure of 'nearly 200 samples' circulates (Wikipedia album article) — NOT blended; NPR's conservative sourced figure is the one carried. CTL treatment: CTL Short #35, published 2026-10-07 (Shorts link map, recorded URL); CTL Archive score 80/100 is CTL's judgment, recorded on the CTL org account 2026-10-01 — it appears only in the packet's Curator's Judgment. Photo slot: CANDIDATE (conditional) named in packet (Commons, PD per metadata — photographer unrecorded, visual pass must confirm the PD basis at intake or the slot falls to HELD); nothing downloaded.

Relationships

• Roy Ayers — authored by
  The album was released under the Roy Ayers Ubiquity billing (Polydor Records, May 12, 1976). The schema's authored_by runs Work→Person, and Roy Ayers is the billing's namesake, the band's leader, and the album's producer — the edge runs to Ayers personally with the Ubiquity billing carried exactly here and in the Work's record; no separate Ubiquity entity is staged in this packet.

Sources

• Wikipedia, “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Loves_the_Sunshine — release data, Billboard 200 peak, production credits
• NPR, obituary of Roy Ayers, March 5, 2025 — title track sampled over 100 times; Ayers on the song's creation (The Guardian, 2017)
• Pitchfork, “The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s” (2016) — title track at No. 72

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