Gary Jackson

March 8, 1945 - February 3, 2014 Songwriter. Active mostly in the Chicago soul scene. Best known as co-writer of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher". Gary L. Jackson was born in Columbus, Kansas on March 8, 1945 to the union of Claude Jackson Sr. and Margaret Smith. Gary, his mother, his maternal grandparents, George and Lottie Smith, later moved from Joplin, Missouri to Chicago, Illinois in 1940.