" Higher and Higher" is an R&B song written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith. It was originally recorded by The Dells in February, 1967, released in May 1967, then by Jackie Wilson for h
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Jackie Wilson in 1961
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Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked as a session musician w
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
…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. Released as a single, Coolidge's version became her…
Jones in 2009
Booker T. Jones's childhood home on Edith Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee
Booker T. playing organ at the Petaluma Wine, Jazz and Blues Festival, August 2009
Booker T. playing guitar at Kitchener Bluesfest in 2013