<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Mean to Me" (1975) </Td> <Td> "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (1977) </Td> <Td> "We're All Alone" (1977) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Mean to Me" (1975) </Td> <Td> "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (1977) </Td> <Td> "We're All Alone" (1977) </Td> </Tr> <P> In 1977 Rita Coolidge remade the song as "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" for her album Anytime...Anywhere . Her version is more mid-tempo than the driving original and largely omits the chorus which is evidenced only in the background vocals sung under the repetition of the first verse with which she 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 . </P> <P> Released as a single, her version became Coolidge's first major hit in nine years of recording: the track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Cash Box ranked it at No. 1 . "Higher and Higher" also reached No. 1 in Canada . Both the song and a subsequent release, "We're All Alone", earned Coolidge gold records for each selling a million copies . </P>

Who sings your love has lifted me higher