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Well I wondered the same thing a while back and upon researching ran across one of their drummers, Wally Gator Watson. I emailed him through his website and asked if he was the drummer for this song. He said no, Bernard Purdie recorded that song. So there you have it, from a very reliable source!
Wally was actually being modest when he answered you. Mr. Purdie was the drummer on that recording, but Wally also contributed to that recording on the drums. Wally had just started playing for the Stairsteps. His first gig with them was at the Cheetah Club in NYC the night before they actually recorded O-o-h Child. They had Wally play as well so his name could be on the recording. I know about this because Wally and I were very dear friends for many years and were actually working on his memoirs together before he died. That story is in his memoirs. Wally spent the last 20 years or so of his life drumming for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Wally died in September 2010, and Mr. Purdie, whom I've never met but whom Wally had tremendous respect and admiration for, now drums for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. The story seems to have come full circle.
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According to his bio, Jerome Eugene "Bigfoot" Brailey played drums on "Ooh Child" as well as a number of classics. I have seen a number of false claims that Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, one of the best in the business, played on several songs he had not played on.
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