(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher - Michael McDonald - MP3 instrumental karaoke

In 2008, Doobie Brothers' mainstay and unwitting yacht rock flagbearer Michael McDonald put his blue-eyed soul-pop seal on this 1967 R&B chart-topper, which was first made famous by Jackie Wilson and written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith. Michael McDonald’s expressive take on "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher)" was included on his own covers album Soul Speak, which marked his first album since the two-time Grammy-nominated LP Motown five years prior. Soul Speak – which went to Number 12 on the US Billboard 200 – featured this vivid reimagining of "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher)" – a song that rides the giddy highs of love and nails its soul-pop colours to its mast – along with covers of Van Morrison's “Into the Mystic” a mournful remake of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah," and a more streamlined version of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," among other picks.