(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
"(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]
"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"
"I'm the One to Do It"
August 1967 (original version)
June 17, 1998 (digitally remastered Dolby Surround re-release version)
July 6, 1967
Columbia Studios, Chicago
2:59
Brunswick Records
55336
- Gary Jackson
- Raynard Miner
- Carl Smith[2]
In popular culture[edit]
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 its soundtrack. It also appears in the end credits of the films The Bachelor, Disney's The Kid and Death to Smoochy.
"(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher"
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
4:02
3:28 (single edit)
Billy Davis, Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner and Carl Smith
Kevin Borg version[edit]
In 2008, Kevin Borg performed the song, still known as "Higher and Higher", and became the winner of season eight of Idol. The version charted in Sweden, peaking at number twenty-nine.[36]