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The Five Stairsteps


Gotsoul

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Between the fifties teen idols[Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers-Little Anthony & The Imperials] and the Motown sensations[The Jackson Five]of the late sixties, there were Burke family group-The Five Stairsteps who had a string of hits-1966-71 under the tuteledge of Curtis Mayfield they were the first family of soul and later were joined by little[Cubie]a shoutout to a good soul teen group.

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7 hours ago, Gotsoul said:

Between the fifties teen idols[Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers-Little Anthony & The Imperials] and the Motown sensations[The Jackson Five]of the late sixties, there were Burke family group-The Five Stairsteps who had a string of hits-1966-71 under the tuteledge of Curtis Mayfield they were the first family of soul and later were joined by little[Cubie]a shoutout to a good soul teen group.

running almost parallel with The Burkes at this time was The Simmons family, originally calling themselves The 5 Stepping Stars they then became The Family Circle, the groups leader and writer in chief was the multi talented Charles "Chas" Simmons who I am glad to say is still involved with music projects to this day, had a few conversations with him and he told me they had worked alongside The Burkes. Two very talented Family groups indeed

Kev

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