5/27/13- One Stairstep is Gone

Clarence Burke, Jr., a founding member of the legendary family group The Five Stairsteps (“Ooh Child”) and later the creator (with his brothers) of the disco-fund group The Invisible Man’s Band, has reportedly died at age 62. Causes of Burke’s death have not been released.
Burke hit the mountaintop with both groups, selling millions in 1970 with “Ooh Child” as part of the Stairsteps, and later topping the dance charts with the infectious “All Night Thing” with the Invisible Man’s Band (a song that Burke wrote and produced).