Sunshine Day

Amarfio, Osei and Tontoh wrote it. It was recorded at Roundhouse in 1975, though some sources say late 1975 or early 1976, and Maxazine says Kiki Gyan replaced Robert Bailey shortly before the single and contributed much of its sound. The single came out in January 1976 and reached 17 in the UK, although the Wikipedia singles list dates it 1975; the follow-up was "The Coffee Song". Maxazine calls it a message of hope and joy, which is a characterization and not the band's words. The album version runs 4:59 and the single edit 3:13.

A version is used in Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2014), and Sunshine Day: The Boyhood Sessions (Red Steel, 2020) was compiled by Rob Corich and Osei afterward, with three versions of the song; Songlines gave it 3 of 5, calling it a less than satisfying mish-mash with the best moments in the live material. Osibisa made later versions, a radio edit in 1995, a Hot Summer Mix in 1996, a Dancemaster Techno Mix in 1998 and a Boyhood Summer mix in 2022, and Matt Bianco covered it in 1998 on World Go Round. We do not know which version our upload is.