http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9vjoiIK-BA


This as a straight up jam released by "The Invisible Man's Band" back in 1979. More people might remember them as the Five Stairsteps who started out about 13 years earlier as a teen group who didn't sing like teens.

It charted at number 9 in 1980.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

That was my jam from back in the day. I had just graduated from the 8th grade back at that time. Actually, that was an 80's tune, than 79, not 2 debate on the time it hit the radio stations and wrecka stows, lol. I still jam off it when they do play it on the radio. "It's goona be a all night thing"

LittleBLUECorvette said:

GET OUT! Those singing that song were THE Five Stairsteps?! Wow... you learn something new everyday.

Oops, I read wrong, It was spring 1980 not spring 1979, well close enough.


Yeah the Stairsteps started to call themselves the Invisible Man's Band because they didn't want to be looked at as those cute kids from the mid 1960's but a real Funk group, or whatever.

hey,great minds think alike

LittleBLUECorvette said:

interestingly,the song "All Night Thing" makes a reference to "O-o-h Child" (the biggest Five Stairstep hit).Listen to the first verse.

Timmy84 said:

All these years of listening to that song and I never knew...That is such a funky cut!

Yep, that was definitely the Five Stairsteps I was hearing and yeah I heard the "O-o-h Child" reference.

Yeah that was the jam. I was a freshman in high school at the time.
Damn that is some interesting trivia being the five stairsteps.
Anyone noticed that the tonies song annie may from their house of music cd
sounds eerily familiar to this one. Not saying the tonies borrowed or copied from them it is just coincidental since the tonies were into a lot of old soul and r&b on house of music anyway.
[Edited 8/27/07 19:58pm]