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Roy Ayers Ubiquity — Everybody Loves the Sunshine (1976)
CTL Thin Brief · CTL-TB-000118 · Published 2026-10-09
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What makes Everybody Loves the Sunshine a landmark?
Released in 1976 on Polydor, the album’s title track became a long-lived soul staple and one of vibraphonist Roy Ayers’s best-known recordings. SUPPORTED
Key facts
- Roy Ayers was a vibraphonist, bandleader, and composer central to jazz-funk and soul jazz. SUPPORTED
- Everybody Loves the Sunshine was released in 1976 on Polydor Records. SUPPORTED
- The album was credited to Roy Ayers Ubiquity, his working band of the 1970s. SUPPORTED
- Its title track became one of Ayers’s most enduring recordings. SUPPORTED
- Ayers’s jazz-funk grooves have influenced generations of soul, funk, and hip-hop producers. PROVISIONAL
Sources
- AllMusic: Everybody Loves the Sunshine album page
- Polydor Records catalog
- CTL Knowledge Graph: Roy Ayers
Evidence grades: VERIFIED — strong primary or multiple corroborating sources. SUPPORTED — credible, partly corroborated. PROVISIONAL — single source or general knowledge, uncorroborated.
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