It’s wonderful because I’m still growing in popularity. “It’s wonderful, the desire young people express for my music. He says of modern artists in an interview from May 2016: Stream songs including Daddy Bug (Live At the Montreaux Jazz Festival/1972), In a Silent Way (Live At the Montreaux Jazz Festival/1972) and more. The song has kept him popular with recent collaborations with Tyler the Creator and Alicia Keys. Listen to Roy Ayers - Live At the Montreaux Jazz Festival by Roy Ayers Ubiquity on Apple Music. Cole, Naughty By Nature, FunkDoobiest, Brand Nubian, and Brazilian artist Seu Jorge. The list goes on with the song being borrowed or covered by Common, J. The album is drenched in layers of piano and synthesizer. Bolstered by drummer Doug Rhodes, bassist John Shaun Solomon, and guitarist Ronald Head Drayton, the album has an exuberance not seen since Ayers’ early days. Late rapper 2Pac resang the same hook on “Lost Souls” featuring Outlawz. 1976 Reinvigorated by a new backing band, Roy Ayers reached a high-water mark in 1976 with Everybody Loves the Sunshine. Blige sampled the original track and it’s “my life, my life, my life in the sunshine” hook for her signature song and title track of her seminal hip-hop soul album My Life. The song has lived many lives through sampling and interpolation. It has gained a pro-Black association with his soulful musical elements and lyrics like “folks get down in the sunshine / folks get brown in the sunshine.” The song has an instantly recognizable repeating siren-like synthesizer riff that interplays with a simplified funk bassline and piano jazz chords. His mellow, unconventional, jazzy and repetitive grooves, infused with human sentiment, are frequently irresistible.“Everybody Loves the Sunshine” is a 1976 song by Roy Ayers and his band Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Although it doesn’t get too out there – the funky bossa nova of It Ain’t Your Sign, It’s Your Mind rails against those who took the whole horoscope thing too far.Įverybody Loves the Sunshine was much loved, and is one of the principal reasons Roy Ayers still visits the UK for a string of sold out concerts each year. The song has an instantly recognizable repeating siren-like. The latter, with its cosmic overtones and talk of “secrets of numbers, secrets of sound”, chimes with the late 60s ‘Age of Aquarius’ atmosphere that still permeated in 1976. Everybody Loves the Sunshine is a 1976 song by Roy Ayers and his band Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Tracks such as The Golden Rod and The Third Eye, both vibes showcases for Ayers, border on the generic. By 1976, vibraphone legend Roy Ayers and his group Ubiquitys music had become dirtier, funkier, and more repetitive. It was an approach that Arthur Russell would later emulate as Dinosaur L, gaining the support of the underground press. Keyboard player Philip Woo and guitarist Ronald “Head” Drayton play off each other, while John Solomon’s fluid, underrated bass holds it all together. Fans of hip-hop, groove music, funk, and jazz will all be able to find something to enjoy on the collection. The opening Hey Uh-What You Say Come On is a chant over a driving rhythm with instrumental interludes. During the 1970s, Ayers and his band, Ubiquity, progressed from political- and social-commentary funk to blaxploitation to disco to some surprisingly touching R&B ballads, and this two-disc set covers it all with grace and a smooth flow. The more conventional ballad Keep on Walking follows a similar groove it can be seen as a direct influence on British funk ensembles such as Light of the World.Įlsewhere, the album is far from down-tempo.
As the tempo seems as enervated as the sweltering day the song describes, Ubiquity’s massed vocals joyously state the obvious: “Folks get down in the sunshine / Folks get brown in the sunshine / Everybody loves the sunshine.” Few records make you feel so pleasantly exhausted. Piano dribbles out over lazy ARP synthesiser flourishes. Much of this was to do with its title-track, a woozy, off-kilter tribute to the summer. LP, Album, Stereo, All Disc Pressing Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz. Unbelievably, Everybody Loves the Sunshine was Roy Ayers’ 14th album, but it was the one that really struck a chord in the UK. Roy Ayers Ubiquity EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE Original US Issue LP. The outfit were square pegs that refused to fit in any holes that suggested straightforward jazz, soul or disco.
Yet it was still in turns mellow and soothing. Roy AyersVirgin Ubiquity II, Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981 (Album) 2005. The signature track Everybody Loves the Sunshine has been sampled numerous times. By 1976, vibraphone legend Roy Ayers and his group Ubiquity’s music had become dirtier, funkier, and more repetitive. Everybody Loves The Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity (1976).
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