Dave's Song of the Day
O-o-h Child – The 5 Stairsteps
Friday song of the day: Today’s song was recorded by a family.
The Five Stairsteps (sometimes spelled as The 5 Stairsteps) were a group of siblings, the children of Betty and Clarence Burke of Chicago. For a while, the sixth child Cubie Burke was added to the group and they were known as The Five Stairsteps and Cubie. When they recorded O-o-h Child in 1970, they still had all six members, but had dropped the “and Cubie” from their name.
They released their first single in 1966, but their records failed to break the Top 40 until O-o-h Child. That record was a big hit, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Originally, the song was a B-side on a record with a cover of Dear Prudence as the A-side, but O-o-h Child started getting airplay in several key cities, so the record company re-released it as an A-side, with Who Do You Belong To as the B-side.
The Five Stairsteps disbanded in 1976, although a version of the band under the new name The Invisible Man’s Band formed in 1979.
View: https://youtu.be/dguz0IsCuKU
Tomorrow: But everybody’s working overtime
O-o-h Child – The 5 Stairsteps
Friday song of the day: Today’s song was recorded by a family.
The Five Stairsteps (sometimes spelled as The 5 Stairsteps) were a group of siblings, the children of Betty and Clarence Burke of Chicago. For a while, the sixth child Cubie Burke was added to the group and they were known as The Five Stairsteps and Cubie. When they recorded O-o-h Child in 1970, they still had all six members, but had dropped the “and Cubie” from their name.
They released their first single in 1966, but their records failed to break the Top 40 until O-o-h Child. That record was a big hit, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Originally, the song was a B-side on a record with a cover of Dear Prudence as the A-side, but O-o-h Child started getting airplay in several key cities, so the record company re-released it as an A-side, with Who Do You Belong To as the B-side.
The Five Stairsteps disbanded in 1976, although a version of the band under the new name The Invisible Man’s Band formed in 1979.
View: https://youtu.be/dguz0IsCuKU
Tomorrow: But everybody’s working overtime