Sun

Also known as Over Night Low

Sun is an R&B, soul, disco, and funk band that was formed in the mid-1970s and recorded prolifically for Capitol Records from 1976 to 1984. The band was founded by Byron Byrd in Dayton, Ohio, in 1976. Additional members included Kym Yancey, Chris Jones, Gary King, John Wagner, Hollis Melson, and Shawn Sandridge.

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Sun is an R&B, soul, disco, and funk band that was formed in the mid-1970s and recorded prolifically for Capitol Records from 1976 to 1984. The band was founded by Byron Byrd in Dayton, Ohio, in 1976. Additional members included Kym Yancey, Chris Jones (later of Dayton), Gary King, John Wagner, Hollis Melson, and Shawn Sandridge.

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Sun was formed by Byron Byrd along with other members of his previous band, Over Night Low. They realized they needed a stronger band concept after they were approached by record producer Beau Ray Fleming one night following a performance at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus. Beau originally proposed "Celestial Sun," but they eventually shortened the name to just "Sun," with Byrd stating the inspiration as the Sun being "a universally accepted symbol of energy."

After being signed to Capitol by Larkin Arnold, Sun was faced with an immediate problem: an incomplete band. The gap was in the rhythm section, so Byron Byrd recruited Roger Troutman and Lester Troutman (of Zapp) and paid them to do some studio sessions so he could finish the album. Lester laid drum tracks with Roger on bass, then Roger overdubbed guitar for four songs on the album, including "Live On, Dream On." It was on "Wanna Make Love (Come Flick My BIC)" that Roger contributed his signature talk box embellishments.

Also known as Over Night Low

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“Sun has never deprived anyone of its light and energy irrespective of their caste and religion. Despite this, if it is being linked to communalism then I request such people to stay in their rooms during the day without sunlight.”
— Yogi Adityanath. On religious groups claiming that the Yoga practice Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) would cause religious disharmony or be an infidel practice incompatible with Islam or Christianity, as quoted in "People opposed to 'Surya Namaskar' should lock themselves in 'dark room': Yogi Adityanath", Zee News (9 June 2015)
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556)
“Thou shall come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
— John Lyly, Euphues. Howell, Instructions for Ferreine Travell (1642), Arber's reprint, 1869
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
— Jonas Salk, in response to the question regarding his Polio vaccine, "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" by Edward R. Murrow, in a CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Jon Cohen, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001)
“Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.”
— William Wordsworth, "On Revisiting the Banks of Wye" (1798)
“The sun never leaves my heart, which surpasses a garden.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III, ETCSL, 3rd millennium BCE

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