Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Original release 1976 Polydor
2016 Reissue – Polydor / The Verve Music Group B0024310-01

This 40th anniversary gold pressing is a nice reissue of one of the high points of Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s catalog. There is less vibraphone and a lot more Arp on this one. Every song a winner. Also, it seems like only a matter of time before the track “Lonesome Cowboy” gets used in a Coen Brothers film. Or maybe Tarantino. Anyway enjoy it before they ruin it.  The whole album successfully grafts its cosmic jazz-funk onto the kind of broad positivity preached by pre-Riot era Sly Stone (with “People And The World” sounding like a bit like a discarded Family Stone jam).

A1 Hey Uh-What You Say Come On 3:45
A2 The Golden Rod 3:03
A3 Keep On Walking 3:46
A4 You And Me My Love 3:11
A5 The Third Eye 6:21
B1 It Ain’t Your Sign It’s Your Mind 3:28
B2 People And The World 4:48
B3 Everybody Loves The Sunshine 4:01
B4 Tongue Power 3:02
B5 Lonesome Cowboy 4:03

Distributed By – Universal Music Distribution
Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs
Recorded At – Electric Lady Studios and Larrabee Sound Studies
Produced For – Ro-Ayers Production Co. Inc.

Roy Ayers – vibraphone, lead vocals, electric piano, synthesizer (ARP, String Ensemble), percussion, background vocals
Philip Woo – piano, electric piano, synthesizer (ARP, String Ensemble)
Chano O’Ferral – congas, percussion, lead vocals
Ronald “Head” Drayton – guitar
John “Shaun” Solomon – electric bass
Doug Rhodes – drums
Chicas – lead vocals, background vocals

Arranged by Roy Ayers
Co-producer – Maurice Green, Roy Ayers
Congas, Percussion, Lead Vocals – Chano O’Ferral

Engineer – James Green, Jerry Solomon

Mastered By – (SJR)
Photography By [Band] – David Heffernan
Photography By [Cover] – Leonid Lubianitsky
Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Arp, String Ensemble] – Philip Woo

Transfer lineage: Polydor-Verve (B0024310-01) 2016 yellow vinyl; Pro-Ject RM-5SE with Audio Tecnica AT440-MLa cartridge; Speedbox power supply; Creek Audio OBH-15; Audioquest King Cobra cables; M-Audio Audiophile 192 Soundcard ; Adobe Audition at 32-bit float 192khz; clicks and pops removed manually with Adobe Audition 3.0; dithered and resampled using iZotope RX Advanced. Converted to FLAC in either Trader’s Little Helper or dBPoweramp. Tags done with Foobar 2000 and Tag and Rename.


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8 thoughts on “Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Everybody Loves The Sunshine (1976) (2016 UMG Gold Reissue)

    1. I began to think that nobody was really going for the 192 khz versions. I can easily fix that for you with a couple of clicks!

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