First recorded (as “(My Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”) by The Dells (1967).
Also recorded (as”(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher”) by Otis Redding (1967 |B-side R&B #30 1969).
Hit versions by Jackie Wilson (US #6/R&B #1 1967 |UK #11 1969), Canada Goose (US #90/CAN #44 1970), Rita Coolidge (US #2/UK #48/AUS #6 1977).
From the wiki: The Dells (‘Oh, What a Night’) recorded their version of ‘Higher and Higher’ in February 1967 but did not release the song until May 1968, on the album There Is. A version by Otis Redding, recorded prior to his passing in December 1967, was posthumously released in 1969, 18 months later, as the B-side to ‘Free Me’.