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Store Categories ROY AYERS UBIQUITY Everybody Loves The Sunshine / LP NEW YELLOW VINYL / Polydor 2023
2023 reissue on yellow vinyl - Roy Ayers's had long made his shift into R&B/soul by 1976's Everybody Loves the Sunshine. His recordings of this period can be very hit and miss, and in this particular record, you get both. The title track, "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," is a quintessential song from the mid-'70s. While it might not have slammed the charts like Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music," it's still a revered classic. It evokes that feeling of sweltering concrete in Brooklyn where the only relief is the local fire hydrant. Entirely sung by a choir repeating the same lines throughout, the rhythm section rolls along with a perfectly looped laid-back groove. It moves along lazily, hypnotically, and sluggishly as the sun slows things down to the right speed and "folks get down in the sunshine." The rest of the album contains Ayers classics such as the burning percussive funk of "It Ain't AYour Sign It's Your Mind," the spacey cosmic soul of "the Third Eye," the bumping rubbery disco in "People and the World," and the two horn-scorched closers "Tongue Power," and "Lonesome Cowboy."
A1 Hey Uh-What You Say Come On
A2 The Golden Rod
A3 Keep On Walking
A4 You And Me My Love
A5 The Third Eye
B1 It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind
B2 People And The World
B3 Everybody Loves The Sunshine
B4 Tongue Power
B5 Lonesome Cowboy