Roy Ayers' "Everybody Loves The Sunshine"

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Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Just bees and things and one song that’s been sampled over 100 times! This week, Diallo and LUXXURY break down “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” from the godfather of neo-soul, Roy Ayers. They discuss L.A.’s jazz scene, explore Roy Ayer’s lasting influence on modern music, and pose an inconceivable question: Is there really no vibraphone on “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”? One Song Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40SIOpVROmrxTjOtH7Q1yw?si=5174a4931e4c4bc2 Songs Discussed: "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" - Roy Ayers "Running Away" - Roy Ayers Ubiquity "Description of a Fool" - A Tribe Called Quest "What Are We Gonna Do?" - Luxxury "Flying Home" - Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra "Memphis Underground" - Herbie Mann "I Love You Michelle" - Roy Ayers "We Live In Brooklyn Baby" - Roy Ayers Ubiquity "Borough Check" - Digable Planets "Mystic Voyage" - Roy Ayers Ubiquity "The Third Eye" - Roy Ayers "Passin' Me By (Fly As Pie Remix)" - The Pharcyde "My Life" - Mary J Blige "Ooh" - Roy Ayers "Pothole" - Tyler, The Creator feat. Jaden Smith "You Can't Turn Me Away" - Sylvia Striplin "Get Money" - Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat. the Notorious B.I.G. "Tell It Like It T-I-Is (MK Underground Mix)" - The B-52's Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Luxury today, we're all about the vibes, literally about the vibes, because we're talking about
0:04.3	a similar work by Jazz Legend, who's working jazz and Jazz Fusion, not only established him
0:09.7	as one of the music's greatest vibes player, see what we did there, but also made him the pioneer
0:15.8	of a later genre, Neosol. That's right, Dio. Though it was never released as a single,
0:21.5	this song peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200
0:24.1	and has been sampled more than 100 times.
0:26.9	More than 100 times.
0:28.2	Very much more than 100.
0:29.0	I'd be surprised if it wasn't sampled 200 times.
0:31.1	Might have been even 200.
0:32.3	Listen, we're talking about bees and things
0:35.0	and one song, and that song
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