This was gonna be her annual sultry cornpone when A&R man Jerry Wexler opined "You know, you would do better with songs that people Recognize. Why not a Bee Gees tune, maybe that wonderful Sam Cooke song the Stones covered once? And who can go wrong with 'Higher and Higher'?" And it almost works, too, except that those of us with a long enough memory can still hear the originals. It takes a special kind of stupid to turn "Higher and Higher" into a downtempo. C