You're Makin' Me High

Infobox Single
Name = You're Makin' Me High


Artist = Toni Braxton
Album = Secrets
B-side = "Let It Flow"
Released = May 21, 1996 (U.S.)
Format = CD single, CD maxi single, cassette single, 12" single, 7" single
Recorded = 1996
Genre = R&B
Length = 4:27
Label = LaFace
Writer = Babyface, Bryce Wilson
Producer = Babyface, Bryce Wilson
Certification = Platinum (RIAA)
Last single = "I Belong to You"/"How Many Ways"
(1994)
This single = "You're Makin' Me High"/"Let It Flow"
(1996)
Next single = "Un-Break My Heart"
(1996)

"You're Makin' Me High" is the lead single from Toni Braxton's second studio album, "Secrets" (1996). A joint collaboration between the Grammy Award-winning producer Babyface and Bryce Wilson resulted in this mid-tempo song. The song was issued in the United States as a double A-side with "Let It Flow", the airplay hit from the 1995 motion picture "Waiting to Exhale".

It became Braxton's first number-one single on both the "Billboard" Hot 100 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts; it remained atop for one week on the former and for two weeks on the latter, eventually going platinum by the RIAA. A dance remix by Morales allowed the single to also top the Hot Dance Club Play chart for two weeks in August 1996.

The song earned Braxton her third Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female in 1997. The success of "You're Makin' Me High" would later be continued with the release of "Un-Break My Heart". The song was sampled for Method Man & Redman's 2001 song "Part II", from the "How High" soundtrack.

Music video

The music video, directed by Bille Woodruff, featured Braxton surrounded by a group of friends consisting of Tisha Campbell-Martin, Erika Alexander, and Vivica A. Fox. An elevator brings up a series of non-suitable and suitable men for Braxton in the form of a card game. She chooses Bryce Wilson and they are shown to hit it off in a bathtub of cotton candy and on the dance floor.

Track listings and formats

;European CD maxi single
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Album Version) – 4:26
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Morales Classic Edit) – 3:35
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Morales Classic Mix) – 9:41

;UK CD 1
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
#"You're Makin' Me High" (T'empo's Radio Edit) – 4:05
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Dancehall Mix) – 4:52
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Groove Remix) – 4:34
#"You're Makin' Me High" (T'empo's Private Club Mix) - 8:50
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Morales Classic Mix) – 9:41

;UK CD 2
#"You're Makin' Me High" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
#"Let It Flow" – 4:22
#"Breathe Again" – 4:17
#"Another Sad Love Song" – 4:55

Charts

{| class="wikitable"!align="center"|Chart (1996)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|United World Chart [cite web |url=http://www.mediatraffic.de/week32-1996.htm |title=United World Chart – singles & airplay – week 32 / 1996 |accessdate=2008-10-11 |work=Media Traffic]
align="center"|3
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100
align="center"|1
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
align="center"|1
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot Dance Music/Club Play
align="center"|1
-!align="center"|Chart (1997)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|Canadian Singles Chart
align="center"|8

References

succession box
before = "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
title = U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number-one single (first run)
(with "Let It Flow")
years = June 29, 1996
after = "How Do U Want It" / "California Love" by 2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo / featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutmansuccession box one to two
before = "How Do U Want It" / "California Love" by 2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo / featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman
title1 = U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 number-one single
(with "Let It Flow")
years1 = July 27, 1996
after1 = "Macarena" (Bayside Boys Mix) by Los del Río
title2 = U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number-one single (second run)
(with "Let It Flow")
years2 = July 27, 1996
after2 = "I Can't Sleep Baby (If I)" by R. Kellysuccession box
before = "Keep on Jumpin'" by Todd Terry featuring Martha Wash and Jocelyn Brown
title = U.S. "Billboard" Hot Dance Music/Club Play number-one single
years = August 17, 1996 – August 24, 1996
after = "Stand Up" by Love Tribe