“Higher And Higher” by Jackie Wilson

"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" gave Jackie Wilson a number one R&B hit and a pop top 10 in 1967, the title song of his album Higher and Higher. Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner and Carl Smith wrote it, and Carl Davis produced.

The backing track was cut on July 6, 1967, at Columbia's Chicago studios, with Sonny Sanders arranging and four of Motown's house band, the Funk Brothers, moonlighting: James Jamerson on bass, Richard "Pistol" Allen on drums, Robert White on guitar and Johnny Griffith on keyboards. They drove over from Detroit on weekends to top up their Motown pay, and Davis said he paid them double scale, in cash. Motown's session singers were in on it too: Jackie Hicks and Marlene Barrow of the Andantes, plus Pat Lewis sitting in for Louvain Demps.

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