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The Five Stairsteps
"O-o-h Child" är en singel från 1970 som spelades in av Chicagos soulfamiljegrupp Five Stairsteps och släpptes på etiketten Buddah. The Five Stairsteps hade tidigare haft framgång i Chicago med Curtis Mayfield, men när Mayfields arbetsbörda gjorde att han inte kunde fortsätta att arbeta med gruppen, fick de Stan Vincent, en intern producent på Buddah Records, som nyligen hade fått en topp tio-hit med Lou Christies singel "I'm Gonna Make You Mine". The Five Stairsteps första samarbete med Vincent hade ursprungligen formen av gruppens tolkning av "Dear Prudence" som A-sida och Vincents originalkomposition "O-o-h Child" som B-sida. O-o-h Child" slog dock igenom på de viktiga marknaderna Philadelphia och Detroit och nådde så högt som till nummer 8 på Billboard Hot 100 sommaren 1970. Spårets genomslag på R&B-listan var mer dämpat med en toppnotering på plats 14, även om "O-o-h Child" nu betraktas som en klassiker inom soft soul. Billboard rankade skivan som nummer 21 bland 1970 års låtar.
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