6930. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

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From: Higher and Higher; Year: 1967; Genre: Soul
This rather positive and "uplifting" song just kept playing in my brain since yesterday evening; actually surprised I have not picked it yet.
Higher and Higher is one of those big hit standards from the last century you just immediately recognize and will at least have you tapping your foot; putting you in a good mood to boot.
If the music sounds familiar, that is because some of the Funk Brothers from Motown Records were moonlighting on the weekends as session musicians in Chicago to make extra money. Both Richard "Pistol" Allen's drumming and James Jamerson's bass are really the driving force to lay such a perfect groove for the rest of the band and Jackie Wilson to have an amazing platform for such a memorable song.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My song pick 7 years ago today: The Allman Brothers Band - Black Hearted Woman

My song pick 8 years ago today: Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two

My song pick 9 years ago today: Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV 375 - Chorale Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich

My song pick 10 years ago today: Earth, Wind & Fire - You Are a Winner

My song pick 11 years ago today: David Bowie - Golden Years

My song pick 12 years ago today: Pat Benatar - Fire and Ice

My song pick 13 years ago today: The Buoys - Castle

My song pick 14 years ago today: Asia - After the War

My song pick 15 years ago today: Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

My song pick 16 years ago today: The Steve Miller Band - Something Special

My song pick 17 years ago today: Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV 1048 - Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G-Major
 
My song pick 18 years ago today: The Buoys - Give Up Your Guns
 
My song pick 19 years ago today: The Buoys - Timothy
 

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