Friend & Lover was an American folk-singing

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composed of

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-and- wife team Jim and Cathy Post. The duo is best known for its

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" Reach out of the Darkness", which reached number 10 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100

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in the summer of 1968.

Biographical information

Cathy Conn was born May 30, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She had a background in song and

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before meeting her future husband Jim Post at a Canadian provincial fair in 1964. Their marriage and the band eventually broke up. Cathy remarried twice, became Cat Conn, had three children and five grandchildren, and lived for a short time in the mountains of New Mexico. In 2015 or 2016, she moved back into Chicago to live out the rest of her days with two of her grandchildren and one of her first children. She died in Evanston, Illinois, on July 4, 2018, at 73. Jim Post was born October 28, 1939, in Houston, Texas. He had previously performed with the folk group, The Rum Runners. He went on to

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solo albums for labels such as Flying Fish Records and Fantasy Records. Post died after a long illness on September 14, 2022, at the age of 82.

Reach out of the Darkness

Jim, inspired by a New York City

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, wrote the duo's only significant hit single, " Reach out of the Darkness". The song was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with Ray Stevens and Joe South on the session, and released on the

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label (although the Verve Records Discography had a completely different account of the song and its flip "Time on Your Side (You're Only 15 Years Old)" being recorded on August 23, 1967, in New York City, but the location was updated some time later to Atlanta, Georgia, nevertheless still with the sides reversed). The song made the U.S. Top 10 chart in June 1968 and was adopted as a kind of anthem by the protest movement against American politics of the time. It was re-released as the title track of a follow-up album in 1969. The song appeared in the movie ''

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'', '' Aquarius'': "A Change is Gonna Come" (season 1, episode 5), '' Beverly Hills, 90210'': "The Time Has Come Today" (season 4, episode 25), and '' Mad Men'': "Man With a Plan" (season 6, episode 7).

Discography

Albums

Track listing

#"Boston Is a Lovely Town" #"I'm a Woman, I'm a Man" #"Zig-Zag" #"Saturday's Hero" #"Room to Let (to Rowena with Love)" #" Reach out of the Darkness" #"A Wise Man Changes His Mind" #"Ode to a Dandelion" #"If Love Is in Your Heart" #"The Weddin' March (I Feel Groovy)" #"The Way We Were in the Beginning"

Singles

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Friend and Lover American folk musical groups American musical duos Verve Records artists Folk music duos Male–female musical duos Married couples Musical groups established in 1964 Musical groups disestablished in the 1970s 1964 establishments in Texas 1970s disestablishments in Texas