{{For|the Michael Franti & Spearhead album|The Sound of Sunshine (Michael Franti & Spearhead album)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Sound of Sunshine | type = studio | artist = The Sunshine Band | cover = Sound of Sunshine.jpg | alt = | released = September 1975 | recorded = | studio = | genre = Disco | length = 26:27 | label = TK | producer = H. W. Casey, Richard Finch | prev_title = KC and the Sunshine Band | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = Part 3 | next_year = 1976 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r42059 |tab=review |label=''The Sound of Sunshine'' review |first=Alex |last=Henderson |accessdate=2011-10-03}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = D+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=March 13, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> }}
'''''The Sound of Sunshine''''' is the third studio album by the American funk and disco group the Sunshine Band. The album was produced by its vocalist Harry Wayne Casey, who did not perform vocals for the album, and Richard Finch. It was released in September 1975 on the TK label.
==History== ''The Sound of Sunshine'', an instrumental album, was credited only to the Sunshine Band. Singer Harry Wayne Casey ("KC") did not perform on it as a vocalist, though he co-produced it with partner Richard Finch. The album features an instrumental version of "Rock Your Baby", which had been a hit for George McCrae in 1974.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Side one | all_writing = Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, except where noted | title1 = Shotgun Shuffle | length1 = 2:45 | title2 = Rock Your Baby | length2 = 3:58 | title3 = Funky '75 | writer3 = Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch, Clarence Reid | length3 = 2:55 | title4 = S.O.S. | length4 = 3:00 | title5 = Miss B. (Theme) | length5 = 3:07 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title6 = Hey J | length6 = 2:39 | title7 = Just a Groove | length7 = 3:06 | title8 = Sunshine City | length8 = 2:16 | title9 = I Love You | length9 = 2:36 }}
==Personnel== *Harry Wayne Casey – keyboards, vocal *Jerome Smith – guitar *Richard Finch – bass guitar, drum, percussion *Robert Johnson – drum *Fermin Goytisolo – percussion *Ken Faulk – trumpet *Vinnie Tanno – trumpet *Mike Lewis – tenor saxophone *Whit Sidener – baritone saxophone *Beverly Champion – background vocals *Margaret Reynolds – background vocals *Jeanette Williams – background vocals
'''Additional personnel''' *Larry Warmoth – album photography
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==External links== * ''[http://www.discogs.com/Sunshine-Band-The-Sound-Of-Sunshine/master/162681 The Sound of Sunshine]'' at Discogs
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