Jim Post
(born October 28, 1939 in Houston, Texas) is an American folk singer-songwriter, composer, playwright and actor. In 1968 his pop song "Reach out of the Darkness" charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, peaking at number 10. [1]
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History
Post performed and recorded in the 1960s as the duet
Friend and Lover with his wife at that time, Cathy Conn Post.
[2] He worked as a solo singer-songwriter in Chicago and throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. Post was a regular performer at the Earl of Old Town and other Chicago folk music bars, and was a contemporary of notable singer-songwriters
Steve Goodman,
John Prine,
Fred Holstein and
Bonnie Koloc. In 1971, he produced and played on an album of Chicago folk musicians,
Gathering at the Earl of Old Town
, that included the first recording of Goodman's
City of New Orleans.
[3] During the 1990s and 2000s, he focused on performing in the character of
Mark Twain in one-man shows. Post has also recorded an album of children's songs. He lives in
Galena, Illinois with his wife Janet.
Discography
| Year
| Title
| Label
| Number
| Notes
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| 1969
| Reach Out of the Darkness
| Verve Forecast
| FTS 3055
| As Friend and Lover
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| 1972
| Slow To 20
| Fantasy
| 9408
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| 1973
| Colorado Exile
| Fantasy
| 9401
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| Rattlesnake
| Fantasy
| 9425
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| 1976
| Looks Good to Me
| Fantasy
| 9451
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| 1977
| Back On The Street Again
| Mountain Railroad
| 52778
| Live
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| 1978
| I Love my Life
| Mountain Railroad
| 52784
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| 1979
| Magic: In Concert
| Flying Fish
| FF-216
| Live
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| 1980
| Ship Shape
| Flying Fish
| FF-240
| Live
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| 1984
| The Crooner from Outer Space
| Freckle
| 1905
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| 1987
| Jim Post & Friends
| Flying Fish
| FF-419
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| 1987
| Galena Rose
| self released
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| CD
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| 1989
| The Heart Of Christmas
| Chicago Master Works
| 1263
| CD
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| 1996
| Mark Twain And The Laughing River
| Woodside Avenue
| WA-006-2
| CD
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| 2000
| Frog In The Kitchen Sink
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| CD, children's songs
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References
- Single: The Billboard Hot 100
- Liner Notes for Friend & Lover's "Reach Out of the Darkness"
- Dunwich Album Discography