© Jim Post 2012
“Reach Out of the Darkness,” was featured in a Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame exhibit. He recorded it with his
wife, Cathy Conn, as “Friend and Lover” (they event-
ually divorced); Joe South produced the song and Ray
Stevens played keyboards. Immediately recognizable,
both by its driving bass-line melody, and the lyric, “I
think it’s so groovy, now, that people are finally gettin’
together,” it’s viewed by many to be one of the anthems
of the “Love Generation.” That’s only fitting,
considering how it was created, and how it gained
recognition.
“We went to a love-in, in Central Park,” Post recalls.
“When we left, I had two lines written on a napkin: ‘I
think it’s so groovy, now, that people are finally gettin’
together,’ and ‘reach out in the darkness.’
In the past 30 years, among other things, Post has
recorded more than 20 CDs.
- Northwest Quarterly Magazine Winter 2008-09
As Recording Artist
