"O-o-h Child" is a top 10 single from 1970 by the family group The Five Stairsteps, Chicago's answer to The Jackson 5. Previous mixes have featured versions by Laura Nyro & Labelle, Richie Havens and Nina Simone as well as the original. This mix features covers by Roberta Flack, Beth Orton, Valerie Carter, Dee Dee Sharp Gamble and a remix of Nina Simone's version. Additionally, The Five Stairsteps are here with "Danger! She's A Stranger".
One other song repeats across the mix: two covers of Blondie's 1979 hit "Dreaming", by Yo La Tengo and Katy Goodman with Greta Morgan.
JJ DOOM is a collaboration between Jneiro Jarel and MF DOOM, here with "Viberian Son, Pt. II" featuring Del The Funky Homosapien.
The rest: Pete Rock's Aretha Franklin-sampling "Dreamin'" with Common, the ethereal "Footprints On The Moon" by Johnny Harris & His Orchestra, Black Slate's melodic "Amigo", GZA's eerie "Path Of Destruction", Willie Wright's winsome "Nantucket Island", the dramatic "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, the Spinal Tap-esque "Graves Of Deluxe Green" by Alternative TV, the giddy ditty "The Cowboy's Dizzy Sweetheart" by Goebbel Reeves, aka The Texas Drifter, Bobbie Gentry's wistful "Greyhound Goin' Somewhere", the Paul McCartney & Wings' rarity "4th Of July", Paul Whitman & His Orchestra with the romantic "A Picture Of Me Without You" and Tom Moulton's epic remix of "The Love I Lost" by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.
