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Five Stairsteps
"O-o-h Child" er en single fra 1970, som blev indspillet af Chicagos soulfamiliegruppe Five Stairsteps og udgivet på Buddah-labelet. The Five Stairsteps havde tidligere haft perifert succes med Curtis Mayfield i Chicago; da Mayfields arbejdsbyrde forhindrede ham i at fortsætte med at arbejde med gruppen, blev de overdraget til Stan Vincent, en af Buddah Records' interne producere, som for nylig havde scoret et Top 10-hit med Lou Christie-singlen "I'm Gonna Make You Mine". The Five Stairsteps' debutsamarbejde med Vincent var oprindeligt formateret med gruppens fortolkning af "Dear Prudence" som A-side og Vincents originale komposition "O-o-h Child" som B-side. "O-o-h Child" slog dog igennem på de vigtige markeder i Philadelphia og Detroit og nåede op på en placering som nr. 8 på Billboard Hot 100 i sommeren 1970. Trackets indflydelse på R&B-listen var mere afdæmpet med en placering som nr. 14, selv om "O-o-h Child" nu betragtes som en "soft soul"-klassiker. Billboard rangerede pladen som nummer 21 blandt 1970's sange.
Five Stairsteps
"O-o-h Child" is a 1970 single recorded by Chicago soul family group the Five Stairsteps and released on the Buddah label. The Five Stairsteps had previous peripheral success recording in Chicago with Curtis Mayfield; when Mayfield's workload precluded his continuing to work with the group they were reassigned to Stan Vincent, an in-house producer for Buddah Records, who had recently scored a Top Ten hit with the Lou Christie single "I'm Gonna Make You Mine". The Five Stairsteps' debut collaboration with Vincent was originally formatted with the group's rendition of "Dear Prudence" as the A-side with Vincent's original composition "O-o-h Child" as B-side. However, "O-o-h Child" broke out in the key markets of Philadelphia and Detroit to rise as high as #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1970. The track's R&B chart impact was more muted with a #14 peak, although "O-o-h Child" is now regarded as a "soft soul" classic. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 21 song of 1970.
O-o-h Child