The ‘O-o-h Chile’ singer who helped made the classic song a hit, has passed Though most people know the group via their most famous song, they had 19 charting singles between 1966-1980, according to ...

Five Stairsteps singer James Burke has died. He was 70. James died of pneumonia on Friday, his brother and bandmate Dennis confirmed to Rolling Stone Tuesday. Reps for Burke and the Five Stairsteps ...

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Clarence Burke Jr., the lead singer of the Five Stairsteps, a sibling R&B group once regarded as “the first family of soul” for a string of hits that included “O-o-h Child,” died Sunday, a day after ...

It is difficult to talk about music as a balm for certain calamitous moments—periods of deep agitation, anxiety—without sounding like an unforgivable cornball. I do not wish to stand on a mountaintop ...

Though most people know the group via their most famous song, they had 19 charting singles between 1966-1980, according to Variety. Cash played the group’s vocals over the phone for Curtis Mayfield, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clarence Burke Jr., lead singer of the group the Five Stairsteps that sang the 1970 hit "O-o-h Child," has died. He was 64. Burke died on Sunday — a day after his birthday — in ...

James Burke, whose shared lead vocals helped make “O-o-h Child” into a smash for his group the Five Stairsteps in 1970, has died at age 70. Word of Burke’s death first began to circulate on Saturday ...

Clarence Burke Jr., lead singer of the group the Five Stairsteps that sang the 1970 hit "O-o-h Child," has died. He was 64. Burke died on Sunday - a day after his birthday - in Marietta, Ga., where he ...