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"Reach Out of the Darkness" is a song by American folk duo Friend & Lover from their debut studio album of the same name (1968). It was released as the lead single from the album in October 1967, by Verve Forecast Records. Jim Post is credited as the sole writer of the song, whilst production was helmed by Bill Lowery and Joe South.
Jim, inspired by a New York City love-in, wrote the duo's only significant hit single, "Reach Out of the Darkness". [6] The song was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with Ray Stevens and Joe South on the session, and released on the Verve Forecast label [7] (although the Verve Records Discography had a completely different account of the song and its flip "Time on Your Side (You're Only 15 ...
"Reach Out I'll Be There" (also formatted as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)") is a song recorded by the American vocal quartet Four Tops from their fourth studio album, Reach Out (1967). Written and produced by Motown 's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland , [ 3 ] the song is one of the most widely-known Motown hits of the 1960s and is ...
Jim Post was born in Houston, Texas.He performed and recorded in the 1960s as the duo Friend and Lover with his then wife, Cathy Conn Post. [2] He worked as a solo singer-songwriter in Chicago and throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s.
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August 1966 brought the release of the Four Tops' all-time biggest hit and one of the most popular Motown songs ever. "Reach Out I'll Be There" reached number 1 on the U.S. pop and R&B charts [4] and the UK chart and soon became the Tops' signature song. [3]
Wilmer & the Dukes would play such cover songs as "Reach Out" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" by the Four Tops, "Shotgun" & "Road Runner" by Junior Walker & the Allstars, and "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box" by Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. Other acts they opened for included Wilson Pickett and Sly & the Family Stone. Another of ...
The song has been featured in the major motion pictures Jerry Maguire and Fingers. Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts released one more single on Bell, "That Kind of Woman", in 1968. It reached No. 28 in Canada. [10] Her next single titled "Reach Out" on AGP Records reached No. 89 in Canada. [11]