Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0227 Jackie Wilson: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher (1967) Writer: | Raynard Miner, Carl Smith, Gary Jackson, Billy Davis Producer: | Carl Davis Label: | Brunswick Album | Higher and Higher (1967) If there is one song that expresses the pure, giddy joy of being in love, it is this exuberant classic by Jackie Wilson. In the mid-Sixties, hoping to revive his career after a slump in his fortunes, Wilson had decided to work with Chicago soul producer Carl Davis. Unfortunately, their defining collaboration did not seem set to begin smoothly, because Wilson apparently considered “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” a ballad. “We went into the studio, and Jackie started singing it, and it was completely different from what I thought it should sound like,” Davis later recalled. “And I told him, ‘No, no, no, no. I don’t like that!’” Frustrated, Wilson reportedly suggested Davis come out and show him how it should be done. Demonstration over, Wilson “went back in there and in one take he did it,” according to Davis. And the result appears to come from the heart, with Wilson’s voice cracking: he can barely believe his old friend disappointment will never be showing his face again, now he’s found his “one in a million girls.” Alongside him, Motown house band The Funk Brothers provide a pacy and ecstatic turn. The single would reach No. 1 in the U.S. R&B chart and make the regular Top Ten, but Wilson largely failed to capitalize on the success. However, “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” was to reveal its lingering power by bringing the Statue of Liberty to life in the 1989 movie Ghostbusters II. youtu.be/k1odvp-_bhk
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