Everybody Loves a Clown is the third studio album by American band Gary Lewis & the Playboys, and was released in 1965 on Liberty Records, LRP-3428. It is the third of three charting albums released by the band in 1965, and it was the band's third highest charting original album reaching number 44 on the Billboard 200.[2] The single "Everybody Loves a Clown" was the band's fourth single in a row to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 4 in November 1965.[3]
Riding on their string of successful singles, Lewis and producer Snuff Garrett went back into the studio to record the band's third album. The single from the album "Everybody Loves a Clown" was released in August, the same month as their previous album A Session with Gary Lewis and the Playboys. The new album was released three months later in November 1965. The album followed their usual formula of a couple of original compositions along with covers of recent hits by artists such as the Fleetwoods, Manfred Mann, Everly Brothers and Johnny Burnette. Their single from their next album "She's Just My Style" was released in the same month as this album.
