Sunshine pop, also known as sunshine rock, is a musical movement originating in California with its most famous exponents being The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas. The term refers to a specific sound in rock music that was very popular during the mid-1960s and early into the 1970s. Similar styles are Baroque pop, folk-rock, bubblegum pop, and psychedelia. Other groups involved in the movement include The Millennium, The Yellow Balloon, The Sunshine Company, Harpers Bizarre and Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends. There are other tenuously-involved bands, but these tend to be lumped into the genre because of label or production affiliation and not necessarily because of musical styles.

Despite several important groups using the sound, and it being the sound of many ground-breaking records, it was for the most part, not a genre dominated by bands, but by producers. Some of the important producers of the genre were Gary Usher, Curt Boettcher, and Gary Zeckley.

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