(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

1967 single by Jackie Wilson January 2015 March 2010 (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher by Jackie Wilson US vinyl.png Side A of the US single single Jackie Wilson Higher and Higher I'm the One to Do It August 1967 July 6, 1967 Columbia, Chicago Chicago soul pop soul Billboard Staff The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List Billboard https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-pop-songs-all-time-hits/ October 19, 2023 February 11, 2024 Brunswick 55336 Gary Jackson Raynard Miner Carl Smithhttp://www.45cat.com/record/mu1131 Record details at 45.cat 45.cat.com January 29, 2014 Carl Davis I've Lost You 1967 Since You Showed Me How to Be Happy 1967 "(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.http://rateyourmusic.com/list/soulmakossa/higher_and_higher__the_chicago_soul_of_jackie_wilson_1966_1976/ Higher & Higher: The Chicago Soul of Jackie Wilson 1966–1976 – Rate Your Music October 20, 2014 y November 2024 Overview thumb|upright|Jackie Wilson in 1961|left The backing track was recorded on July 6, 1967 at Columbia's studios in Chicago. Produced by Carl Davis, the session, arranged by Sonny Sanders, featured bassist James Jamerson, drummer Richard "Pistol" Allen, guitarist Robert White, and keyboardist Johnny Griffith; these four musicians were all members of the Motown Records house band The Funk Brothers who often moonlighted on sessions for Davis to augment the wages paid by Motown.https://strathdee.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/jackie-wilson/ Jackie Wilson Russ & Gary's "The Best Years of Music" May 9, 2010 source is a blog April 2019 According to Carl Davis, the Funk Brothers "used to come over on the weekends from Detroit. They'd load up in the van and come over to Chicago, and I would pay 'em double scale, and I'd pay 'em in cash." Similarly, two members of Motown's house session singers The Andantes, Jackie Hicks and Marlene Barrow, along with Pat Lewis (who was filling in for Andantes member Louvain Demps), performed on the session for "Higher and Higher".http://doo-wop.blogg.org/andantes-c26504834 The Andantes Doo Wop Blog Drummer Maurice White (better known as a singer for Earth, Wind & Fire) also played on the recording.https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/155723/White_Maurice_instrumentalist_drums Maurice White (instrumentalist : drums) DAHR: Discography of American Historical Recordingshttp://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/3872-maurice-white-philosopher-and-truth-seeker-an-appreciation.html MAURICE WHITE, PHILOSOPHER AND TRUTH SEEKER - AN APPRECIATION Soul and Jazz and Funk.com June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180612232706/http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/3872-maurice-white-philosopher-and-truth-seeker-an-appreciation.html dead Motown's Mike Terry played the baritone saxophone.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/01/mike-terry-obituary Obituary: Mike Terry The Guardian December 2008 Williams Richard The song was originally written by Chess Records' in-house writers and producers Carl Smith and Raynard Miner, and initially recorded by The Dells for the label, but not released. Another writer, Gary Jackson, made some changes to the song and pitched it to Davis at Brunswick. When the singer recorded his vocal track, Davis recalls, Jackie Wilson originally sang the song "like a soul ballad. I said that's totally wrong. You have to jump and go with the percussion... If he didn't want to sing it that way, I would put my voice on the record and sell millions." After hearing Davis' advice, Wilson cut the lead vocal for "Higher and Higher" in a single take.Jackie Wilson on Columbia Records http://www.brunswickrecords.com/artists/jackiewilson.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090522124509/http://www.brunswickrecords.com/artists/jackiewilson.htm May 22, 2009 dead 2009-06-30 mdy A publishing deal for the song was reached with Brunswick after Chess producer/A&R head, Billy Davis, intervened. Writing credits were agreed, with Smith, Miner, Jackson and Billy Davis all named. Later, Davis removed his credit, and BMI now lists the song as by the three other writers. The Dells' version appeared on their album, There Is, for Chess subsidiary Cadet the same year. Release Released in August 1967, the song reached number one on the US Billboard R&B chart and, in November, peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 6. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004 Whitburn Joel Joel Whitburn 2004 Record Research 630 Wilson's version also rose to number 11 and 15 upon the UK Singles Chart during 1969 and 1987 respectively.http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/5348/jackie-wilson/ Jackie Wilson Official Charts.com Brunswick Records then released an album titled Higher and Higher in November 1967. Its chart peak was No. 163 (Billboard 200) and No. 28 (Billboard R&B Albums chart.)y November 2024 The track was ranked No. 246 on Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Charts Weekly charts Chart (1967)PeakpositionAustralia (Go-Set)24Canada RPM Adult Contemporaryhttps://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?IdNumber=8788&app=rpm Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada Collectionscanada.gc.ca 1967-10-14 2019-01-04 Canada Library Archives 2Ireland2 12 Higher and Higher January 25, 2019U.S. Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - 0-89820-089-X6U.S. Billboard R&BJackie Wilson Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Singles 1942-1988 Whitburn Joel 1988 Record Research Inc. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 449 08982006871U.S. Cash Box Top 100http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/19671007.html Cash Box Top 100 Singles, October 7, 1967 January 16, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20181128200442/http://www.tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/19671007.html November 28, 2018 dead 6 Chart (1969)PeakpositionUK Singles Charthttps://www.officialcharts.com/artist/5348/jackie-wilson/ Official Charts Company Officialcharts.com 1969-05-20 2019-01-0411 Chart (1987)PeakpositionUK Singles Charthttps://www.officialcharts.com/artist/5348/jackie-wilson/ Official Charts Company Officialcharts.com 1987-04-07 2019-01-0415 Year-end charts Chart (1967)RankU.S. Billboard Hot 100 http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1967.htm Musicoutfitters.com January 16, 2019 October 5, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171005020606/http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1967.htm dead 53U.S. Billboard R&BDecember 30, 1967 Top Records of 1967 (Based on Billboard Charts) Billboard 79 52 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=aSgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42 April 25, 202510U.S. Cash Box http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/1967YESP.html Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 23, 1967 January 16, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20180930105232/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/1967YESP.html September 30, 2018 dead 67 Certifications United Kingdom single Jackie Wilson (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher Gold 2009 2022 14934-2082-1 March 8, 2022 true true true In popular culture Film and television Wilson's original version and a cover version by singer Howard Huntsberry were both used in the 1989 comedy film Ghostbusters II, with Huntsberry's version also appearing on the soundtrack. Wilson's original version was also used in the end credits of the films For Love or Money, The Bachelor, The Kid, Death to Smoochy, and Date Night, as well as the third season of the Netflix series Stranger Things (specifically the episode "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt"). Politics An instrumental version of the song was played for then-Vice President Joe Biden at both the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions during his address to the delegates. The song was later played after Biden's first speech as President-elect during the 2020 United States Presidential Election and again for his closing address on the opening night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Rita Coolidge version (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher Higher_and_Higher_-_Rita_Coolidge.jpg US, German and Dutch picture sleeve single Rita Coolidge Anytime...Anywhere originally "I Don't Want to Talk About It" replaced on later pressings with "Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame" March 1977 Disco 4:02 3:28 (single edit) A&M Billy Davis, Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner and Carl Smith David Anderle Mean to Me 1975 We're All Alone 1977 Rita Coolidge remade the song as "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" for her album Anytime...Anywhere (1977). Her version has a more moderate tempo than that of the uptempo original, and largely omits the chorus which is evidenced only in the background vocals sung under the repetition of the first verse with which she closes the song. Coolidge and her sister Priscilla Coolidge had sung background on a version of the song for a prospective album by Priscilla's husband Booker T. Jones; when that album was shelved, Coolidge asked him if she could cut the song using his arrangement.http://www.spencerleigh.demon.co.uk/Interview_Coolidge.htm Country Music People 10/06 May 4, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20070222222209/http://www.spencerleigh.demon.co.uk/Interview_Coolidge.htm February 22, 2007 dead Released as a single, Coolidge's version became her first major hit in nine years of recording: the track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1977-09-10 The Hot 100 Chart Billboard Cash Box ranked it at No. 1.http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19770910.html CASH BOX Top 100 Singles 2014-12-23 mdy August 14, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120814104049/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19770910.html dead Cash Box Magazine http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19770910.html Cash Box Top 100 9/10/77 September 10, 1977 2014-07-17 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120814104049/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19770910.html August 14, 2012 "Higher and Higher" also reached No. 1 in Canada. Both the song and a subsequent release, "We're All Alone", earned Coolidge gold records for each selling a million copies. In the UK it was released as the follow-up single after "We're All Alone" which had reached No. 6, but it only achieved a peak of No. 48 there.(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher: Full Official Chart History http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/(your%20love%20has%20lifted%20me)%20higher%20and%20higher/ Official Charts 24 July 2017 Chart performance Weekly charts Chart (1977)PeakpositionAustralia (Kent Music Report) 6Canada RPM Top Singleshttps://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?IdNumber=3340&app=rpm Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada Collectionscanada.gc.ca July 17, 2013 2016-12-201Canada RPM Adult Contemporary 3New Zealand (RIANZ)http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles?chart=2760 NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart Nztop40.co.nz 1977-10-16 2016-09-30 March 15, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160315092116/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles?chart=2760 dead 7UK (Official Charts Company)http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/higher%20and%20higher/ UK Official Singles Chart UK Official Charts Company October 15, 1977 August 15, 2018 48US Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-20022US Billboard Adult Contemporary5US Cash Box Top 100 1 Year-end charts Chart (1977)RankAustraliahttps://i.imgur.com/dHS3QPH.jpg Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977 Kent Music Report Imgur.com 8 January 202228Canadahttps://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?IdNumber=3603&app=rpm Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada Bac-lac.gc.ca July 17, 2013 2016-10-2813New Zealandhttp://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3866 Top Selling Singles of 1977 | The Official New Zealand Music Chart Nztop40.co.nz 1977-12-31 2016-09-30 March 4, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101157/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3866 dead 22U.S. Billboard Hot 100http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977 Musicoutfitters.com 2016-09-30 August 3, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170803162332/http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm dead 8U.S. Cash Boxhttp://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1977YESP.html The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1977 2015-07-16 mdy October 28, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121028173013/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1977YESP.html dead 8 Kevin Borg version In 2008, Kevin Borg performed the song, still known as "Higher and Higher", and became the winner of season eight of Sweden's version of Idol. The version charted in Sweden, peaking at number twenty-nine.http://acharts.us/sweden_singles_top_60/2008/49 Sweden Singles Top 60 (December 4, 2008) – Music Charts αCharts https://web.archive.org/web/20111204160443/http://acharts.us/sweden_singles_top_60/2008/49 December 4, 2011 live mdy See also List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1977 References 30em External links Lyrics of this song Category:1967 singles Category:2007 singles Category:1977 singles Category:Jackie Wilson songs Category:Otis Redding songs Category:Rita Coolidge songs Category:Bette Midler songs Category:Cashbox number-one singles Category:RPM Top Singles number-one singles Category:The Flying Pickets songs Category:1967 songs Category:Brunswick Records singles Category:A&M Records singles Category:Northern soul songs Category:American political party songs Category:Presidential campaign songs