Song · Five Stairsteps
“Ooh Child” by Five Stairsteps
From the album Step By Step By Stairsteps - Greatest Hits Featuring Keni Burke (1994)
“Ooh Child” by Five Stairsteps appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2004 and 2025. It was first released in 1994 on the album Step By Step By Stairsteps - Greatest Hits Featuring Keni Burke. Its best result is #182 on The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,554 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Stan Vincent wrote "O-o-h Child", and the Five Stairsteps, a family group working in the Chicago soul vein, cut it for Buddah in 1970. It later turned up on the 1994 collection Step By Step By Stairsteps.
After limited success with Curtis Mayfield in Chicago, the group was passed to Vincent, a Buddah staff producer fresh off a top-ten hit for Lou Christie, once Mayfield got too busy for them. Their first single together put their take on "Dear Prudence" on the A-side and Vincent's song on the flip, but the B-side broke out in Philadelphia and Detroit, and by the summer it had climbed to 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 14 on the R&B chart. Billboard ranked it the 21st song of 1970, and it has since come to be treasured as a soft-soul classic.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 333 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2012 | 486 | WYEP | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown | 500 |
| 2020 | 1045 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 570 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
| 2022 | 910 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 752 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2025 | 182 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
Also listed as: O-O-H Child; O-o-h Child.
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