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"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is an R&B song written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith. It was recorded by Jackie Wilson for his album Higher and Higher (1967), produced by Carl Davis, and became a Top 10 pop and number one R&B hit. [3] [deprecated source]
The video was directed by Giblets, a London-based animation studio. The reissued version proved so popular that in December 1986, almost three years after Wilson's death, the song became a number 1 in the UK for four weeks (selling over 700,000 copies) becoming that year's UK Christmas number one , 29 years after its chart debut.
"Higher & Higher" (The Blackout song), 2011 "Higher & Higher" (DJ Jurgen song), 2000 "Higher and Higher" (The Moody Blues song), 1969 "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", by Jackie Wilson, 1967; covered by Rita Coolidge, 1977
In 1967, Davis played lead guitar on his childhood friend Jackie Wilson's recording "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", and they also toured together. [2] The song reached No. 1 in the US Billboard R&B chart and, in November, peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 6. [ 11 ]
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The track was covered on February 13, 2006 by Liz McClarnon as her debut solo single which was a double A-side with "Woman in Love". [5] The single reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Jackie Wilson's son Bobby Brooks Wilson recorded the song for his 2016 EP I Can't Love You Anymore and has frequently played it live. [6]
The album spawned three Billboard top twenty hits; a cover of Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone" (#7), a cover of The Temptations' "The Way You Do The Things You Do" (#20), and the album's biggest hit, "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (#2), a remake of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher".