Friend & Lover - Reach Out Of The Darkness

[Matthewsmollen4]

Groovy is what many hippies say.

[deedee2020able]

Such an awesome tune....

[mansionsbymarino]

Loved this song. What memories!

[Sykyk777]

gimme a break rap music is pure,art form

[eric5906]

Hare Krishna Hare Rama

[RememberTheSixties]

For all you sixties fans check out my channel Rememberthesixties I have hundreds of great videos

[bonroyal1]

Groovy as 10 cent movie

[JORGEPSOUSA911]

This song is still so groovy!

[themaxdg]

ok anyone remember House Party, with Kid and Play? the dance scene, it was the beginning of this, looped

[RiG0d]

Took me forever to find. They should have named teh song "So Groovy Now"

[Catdude5000]

Food for the soul.

[HarryPotter87]

I used to think Sonny and Cher did this, but this is awesome!

[TheJavierm7]

Amigos y amantes.

[DeynnaLynn]

Charles2337 I certainly have to agree about your parents having the "Greatest Music" [1960-1970] to listen to. I'm of your parents generation and I listen to "Hits of the 60's" on SIRIUS radio every day and every song still touches my soul, puts a smile on my face, and makes me realize just how "Blessed" I was to grow up during those years. Kids today haven't a clue about "Our" Music. Perhaps things will change and they will have a chance to experience what your parents and my generation did.

[bruces3]

i graduated hs 1987 and im not putting anyones decade down but i just find more in the mid to late 60's period.

[bruces3]

soon as it hits the chorus with that bass damn!!!

[hankinstein]

Great 60s tune. =)

[KIZERVONZINGER]

This is exactly what we need today with all this garbage that is going on with the Division in our Country. I remember singing this song in HS :) Thanks for posting it.

[nanlisa]

I was only ten when this song first came out. It was one of the many songs that I first heard on Famous 56, WFIL, here in Philadelphia. Forty-three years later, I still love this song.

Give me my 60's music anytime. I hate today's music! It's nothing but trash!

[IndianaParkWars]

I love the word groovy, Back then in music, they used groovy and gnarly... but now its shawny and nigga or whatever it is

[Buhhhrito]

@IndianaParkWars I assume you meant "shawty". As in, shorty = code name for one of the rappers women.

[IndianaParkWars]

@Buhhhrito That's what i mean, sorry

[IndianaParkWars]

@Buhhhrito Take a wild guess at how old i am without viewing my channel

[GabrielDhalaman]

@IndianaParkWars back then is a time ilusion,me,for instance,i opened a time vortex and i live in a time this body was not here,only me

[ycronce]

does anyone have "ode to a dandelion" they can post ?

[muncher64]

I just noticed that this is a stereo version of the song

[muncher64]

I like the bassline

[maltesemario]

great message only if people take heed to this timeless classic

[smilearthur]

This song was #1 in NYC when I had my first kiss with my first girlfriend

[MrHorsebutt]

This was recorded by my old friends Jim and Cathy Post. two very talented people. Only song they did that did anything unfortunately....

[mypsmells]

My brother - Bill Walters and his wife sang this to each other at their wedding. It was beautiful.

[jferg7159]

3 people are neiither friendly or lovers 

[GHLIII]

I lived through the sixties -- got tear-gassed on the Berkeley streets -- actually walked through the Haight-Ashberry -- and never, ever, once, did I ever hear an actual human being use the word "groovy". Saccharine and insipid!

[Fabuladico]

@GHLIII I lived through the sixties as well, but I may be a bit younger; I didn't get to college until the seventies. Admittedly I was in the midwest rather than Berkeley, but I used the word "groovy" all the time. We also gave each other the peace sign, wore peace pendants, and said stuff like "far out" and "freaky" and "make love not war". We also wore paisley, granny glasses and bell bottoms. We were so far out and freaky we just had to be groovy!

[Khultan]

@GHLIII Mickey Dolenz says it alot in a documentary in 1968 and I believe one member of The BananaSplits uses it sparingly.

[peterchoyce]

I knew a man that i did not care for. Then one day i gave this man a call. We talked and talked about thngs on our mind. Now this man, he is a friend of mine. BUT HE's not on FACEBOOK!!! can't remember dudes name! fcuk!!!

[bellacolomba09]

Nice Song! Thanks Chuck!!

[tuxdaniel]

We have the tech, our parents had the music.

[lisa4615]

@tuxdaniel my parents werrent crazy about this but NEVER DID THEY TURN OFF THE RADIO.... thanks to them i will try to listen to all kinds..................40's 50's opera jazz most of it i like

[looknleap]

I think it's so groovy now...of a song!! Thanks for posting it!

[noslenyrogergsemaj]

I love this song. Jim Post rocks!!

[secondeagle]

@briananikki12 Nobody likes to spread rumors, especially old ones, so my apologies to you and your grandmum. That said, it legitimately sounds like "Freak out in the darkness" -- did he flub a lyric the first time around in the song or something?

[briananikki12]

@secondeagle no worries :] she said a lot of people thought it was that and a few other things. from freak out in the darkness to freak out in the garbage lol. the words get a little blurred in some places.

[DragonFyaaa]

@secondeagle from what i heard, the song was originally called freak out in the darkness but they were forced to change it cause it was too racy or something, jim didnt like that so he did say the original lyric "freak out in the darkness"

[briananikki12]

by the way i sing too a little bit. but my gramma could really belt.

[briananikki12]

My Grandma was the one singing this song.

[dddilly]

@briananikki12 no frickin way...really?! she's the best thing about this so groovy song!!

[briananikki12]

@dddilly i'll tell her you said that, she always says how surreal her past involving singing is. She always says how it feels like a whole different life that she lived, but she's 65 now.

[tremsfan]

regarding the person who thought the album was average..well, may be, but there is one other killer song on there= "If Love is In Your Heart"....could you post that one also ?

[JORGEPSOUSA911]

This song is simply GROOVY!

[secondeagle]

Fun fact: "Friend" wrote part of this song after an acid trip. The original chorus was "Freak out in the darkness," which you can hear him singing under "Lover" the first time the chorus is played.

[briananikki12]

@secondeagle actually you're wrong. my gramma said that all of that was just rumors. she said that it was never meant to sound like that. so more like "fun opinion" lol. and my gramma was lover. jim post was friend. so you're right about friend cause he wrote all the songs.

[chuckbuckbobuck]

I heard this song for the first time that Saturday in June, 1968 when they buried Robert F. Kennedy. I thought this song was so appropo to what had just happened and how I wish that people could have got together. I wonder which way the country would have went if Bobby had become president. Possibly many lives would have been saved in Viet Nam!

[2blueyez1]

I used to think this song was the Mommas and the Pappas..they sound like them.

[swampzoid]

they sound like an early B-52's

[Khultan]

@swampzoid The other way around.

[glawnow]

I once read an interview by "Friend" (can't remember his real name) where he said the group performing the song was put together by Joe South ("Games People Play" etc), and that Joe also played the great bass line. He had hoped that Joe would arrange and perform on Friend and Lover's other songs, but the record company insisted on a quickie album release without any of these great musicians, dooming the rest of the album to mediocrity. But at least for 3:08 Friend and Lover were great!

[briananikki12]

@glawnow jim post. my gramma was lover.

[jimothy60]

JB is right, the title is "Reach Out Of The Darkness"

[MrChristoff1968]

could you post the 'I'm a woman' track?

[TECHNICIAN4U]

Excellent song; blows away almost ANY of the so called "music" from the 80's, 90's and to date. The 45 RPM record version is ok, but if you get a chance listen to the LP or a CD version.....The instruments are much clearer and pronounced.

This song did make it into the TOP 10 in June of 1968 and charted for 11 weeks per Billboards Top 40 Hits Book. That was tough to do for an unheard of group competing with the Beatles, Stones, etc.

[labourbored]

this song is the best!

[judutchinski]

This just brought me right back down to the ground. Sooo wonderful.

[picoharmotimpo]

Great tune. I've heard it a few times over the years but didn't know anything about the group till now. They were a husband and wife team, Jim and Cathy Post. About 10 years after this, Jim put out a record called "I Love My Life" with a really terrible cover. It regularly gets featured in online collections of Worst Album Covers of All Time. Hard to believe it was the same guy who did this little gem.

[briananikki12]

@picoharmotimpo  this is my gramma, she divorced jimmy and married my grampa :]

[Treaty4]

I remember this song so well. My sister played it endlessly. Great song.

[Gerry50ify]

Such a good song!

[hkhexhead]

She singing reach out and he singing Freak out

[briananikki12]

@hkhexhead nope lol you're wrong. just a rumor.

[jimbobubbadj]

I remember hearing this great song as a kid in my parents 1968 Chevy Caprice station wagon's Delco stereo radio!

[babagoo58]

This is one of the best forgotten songs of ALL TIME!

The vocals are real cheesy 60's and the guitar and drumming are way above perfect.

Ultimate One Hit Wonder!

taxiboysdrummer

[jmus]

so close for a moment it seemed it would happen.......

[tremsfan]

You should hear their followup single= If Love is in Your Heart..it is every bit as good, but i cant get anyone to post it !

[chipdrusano]

Reminds me of the music of Sesame Street's very first season 1969.

[Patel10314]

Incredible solid song!

[Charles2337]

Man my parents had the greatest songs to listen to lol. Ugh, we have complete shit now.

[judutchinski]

@Charles2337 -- totally nailed it.

[jazzhjazz]

@Charles2337 I strongly agree, Maybe you can explain why all the songs in the top 40 all sound alike. Is it the same producers or something?

[briananikki12]

@Charles2337 this is my gramma, she divorced jimmy and married my grampa :]

[Waynescott1]

@Charles2337 -MAN ARE YOU RIGHT ABOUT THAT-PURE SEWAGE MOST OF IT!

[kznte]

@Waynescott1 I'll agree with that. There's no passion, feeling or emotion in today's music!!!!

[PsychLion]

Don't be afraid of love

[iluvrachellef]

Yeah whatever!!Bet u said nothing about the idiotic comment about our President!!

[bnylons]

I remember listening to this on my car record player in my 1968 Mustang. That was the year that I graduated. Car record players were on their way out for eight tracks back then. I was on my way to pick up Nancy for school.

[Revolver7654321]

reach out "IN"the darkness is what there actually saying,gotta love that LSD and the 60's"Peace Out"

[jgyll8mt]

Ya got any zig zags?

[v2vroth]

Kickin Bass line!!!

[kresblain]

I remember hearing that from a song featured on "Cheaper by the Dozen" [People (Come Together) by Len]. Heard this original version on another film just recently. Great find, man.

[briananikki12]

@kresblain they didn't pay my gramma anything whatsoever for that.

[briananikki12]

Respond to this video... they didn't ever ask her if they could use it. she didn't find out till we saw the movie lol.

[iluvrachellef]

Positive tune that came out when i was introduced to the world.WOW,people even blame Obama to the sound of music too LOL.Still better than Grandpa McCain & The Ho from Wasilla!!!!!!

[guitarslinger67]

what a moron comment

[ect893]

I don't remember this song having such a poppin' bassline or funky drums... 'Glad to have revisited it - thanks!

[baretree298]

I think it's so groovy now That Obama has already broken his promise So groovy now It only took him nine months to do it I think it's so groovy now That lobbyists run the whole Gov-ment So groovy now That they are destroying everyhting we've fought for Reach out in the darkness Reach out in the darkness Reach out in the darkness And you will find a hole (in our southern border letting every discontented mexican come home to roost in our nation

[guitarslinger67]

so right daddio so right

[briananikki12]

@baretree298 my gramma like obama. if you like the song you should know that. she supports him. you try running the country and cleaning up after bush.

[briananikki12]

you are incredible. you mean the families just like yours with a different color skin and different circumstances. you're lucky you're a white man. i bet you'd be pretty "discontent" if you weren't.

[baretree298]

groovy

[miss7777777]

this song is so positive---it needs to get out there (hey, esp. now!)

[therealraybaby]

I think it's so groovy now, that people are finally getting together! I think it's wonderful! Reach out of the darkness and you may find a friend!

[Patel10314]

If only we could have songs like this and...

[libraryquiet]

Sounds like Paul McCartney is playing that  bass line.

[JustChiminin]

It's probably some unknown studio player . . but you're right that it's the kind melodic bass line Paul might have played.

[Victorian9322]

it really does

[jenzeppelin]

classic! thanks for posting! i haven't heard this one in a long time! :)

[OldTimeRockRoll1969]

I remember this tune...reminds me of my teen years :-)

[wallyworldusa]

You have the song title wrong.

[JBtheModManchester]

only just noticed mate.... thanks for pointing it out.... cheers ;-)

[burton48]

@JBtheModManchester:  I think the song is titled "Reach Out Of The Darkness." It's just that the lyrics, in substituting the preposition "in" for "of," imply that everyone is in the darkness but nevertheless are exhorted to reach out. The song title implies that the person to whom the song is directed is the one in the darkness. Thanks for the post.

[Babyhowdy233]

@wallyworldusa

No, although the singers are singing "Reach out IN the darkness" the actual title of the song is indeed "Reach Out OF The Darkness".

[Omnidominatus]

@wallyworldusa not necessarily look at the title on the album cover.

[SensationallyRad]

totally groovy man.