Jim Post
Jim Post ( Jimmie David Post ; born October 28, 1938 in Houston ) is an American folk singer, singer-songwriter, author and actor.
Post began his musical career in the mid-1960s as a member of the folk-pop band The Rum Runners . With his wife Cathy he formed the band Friend and Lover , which had great success in 1968 with the song Reach out of the Darkness , which stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks and rose to 10th place there. In 1971 Post produced the album Gathering at the Earl of Old Town , on which u. a. Steve Goodman , Fred Holstein and Ginni Clemens contributed. He himself recorded more than 20 CDs.
In 1986 he wrote his first play Galena Rose: How Whiskey Won the West , in which he himself appeared around 1,500 times (including at the Smithsonian Institution ). He was best known as "Singing Mark Twain " in Mark Twain's Adventures Out West and Mark Twain and the Laughing River . Post wrote several children's books with his second wife, Janet, and he also participated in a musical reading program for mentally handicapped children.
Web link
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- Oldies.com - Friend & Lover Biography
- What Frank is listening to - Jim Post - Colorado Exile - (Fantasy) - 1974
- Jim Post at Allmusic (English)
- Jim Post at Discogs (English)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mail, Jim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Post, Jimmie David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American folk singer, singer-songwriter, author, and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston |