Happy Memorial Day!
The stuff that now passes as "music", particularly rock 'n roll, leaves me cold. So, to start off the week, here's a video of a classic rock artist.
To begin the week, we have Friend & Lover with their 1968 hit, "Reach Out of the Darkness". Friend & Lover comprised the (then) husband and wife duo Jim and Cathy Post. The song reached number 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1968.
I was in 8th grade when the song came out. It is interesting that the title differs from the lyrics in which are "reach out in the darkness" instead of "reach out of the darkness."
The YouTube video has some comments from Cathy Post's (Conn) granddaughter Briana, one of which is:
The female in this song then “Cathy post” now “cat conn” passed away just about three years ago. She was my grandmother and the most beautiful woman inside and out that i had ever known. No Jim post is not my grandfather, they divorced and she married my grandfather and had my mother, my aunt, and then my uncle. I miss her every day. I love this video and that someone kept it in existence for me, her eldest granddaughter to see. I miss her. She and I were kindred souls.
I find it fascinating that Briana can see her grandmother in a music video while she was in her youth.
Cathy Conn was born May 30, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She had a background in song and dance 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 a folk group, The Rum Runners. He went on to record solo albums for labels such as Flying Fish Records and Fantasy Records. Post died in Dubuque, Iowa, after a long illness on September 14, 2022, at the age of 82.
As today is Memorial Day, it is appropriate to remember Cathy and Jim as both have passed on. R.I.P.
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