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(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher

Rita Coolidge

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LIST YEAR

1977

Annual listening-list association, separate from the source-supported original release year reviewed in v3.7.

Genre

RockSoft rock

Theme

Love songs

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RELEASE DATE & LIST YEAR

Release: 1977

Release: 1977Source checked

V3.7 reviewed original release year: Reviewed original album/single year. Later chart placement and reissues do not reset the first release; exact mix and worldwide day remain unspecified.

The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.

Rita Coolidge - Anytime... Anywhere, licensed A&M album
Original 1977 A&M studio album containing Higher and Higher, Were All Alone, and The Way You Do the Things You Do. Year precision does not assume normalized day metadata.

uDiscover Music / UMG - Rita Coolidge album history
1977 album and singles, David Anderle production, Booker T. Jones arrangement source for Higher and Higher, and alternate title wording.

BEHIND THE SONG

Inspiration and background

Supplied note - not independently verified

This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.

A cover of Jackie Wilson's song about the uplifting power of love

Evidence scope: Source-provided note, not an established account of the songwriter's intent

Sources for this information

Owner-supplied 1977.html, song-list position 137
Supplied annotation reproduced with attribution; underlying historical claims have NOT been independently verified.

Other appearances and versions

catalog version unspecified

Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.

An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.

Sources and scope

Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)

Editorial artist-repertoire classification

Billboard year-end 1977 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.

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