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 ...

*Before there was ever a Jackson 5 or The Sylvers, there was the family group The Five Stairsteps. Known as the original “First Family of Soul,” the singing siblings – five of Betty and Clarence Burke ...

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 Sr., an ex-Chicago detective who managed his kids, the soul group The Five Stairsteps, died July 16, one day before his 91st birthday. Once, after a show in Pittsburgh, “My brothers ...