About The Song
“More Than I Can Say” was the third single from the Crickets’ second release, In Style with the Crickets. The song was written by guitarist Sonny Curtis and drummer Jerry Allison in around an hour in 1959. The hook was left unfinished at the time, and at the time of recording, the hook was left this way with no lyrics, only the “wo-wo yay-yay,” which became a memorable part of the song. The single went on to become a minor hit in the UK, entering the top 40 and peaking at 26. Curtis considers this song to be one of his most enduring, looking back at the success subsequent artists have had performing it.
Then American pop music singer Bobby Vee had a hit with it in 1961, which is how Leo Sayer came to cover the song.
Leo said that while looking for an “oldie” to record for his album “Living in a Fantasy”, he saw a TV commercial for a greatest hits collection by Vee and chose the song on the spot: “We went into a record store that afternoon, bought the record and had the song recorded that night.”
It was a big hit for him, going all the way to #1 in Australia, #2 in the US, the UK, South Africa and Ireland, #5 in New Zealand, #7 in Canada, and #9 in the Netherlands.
The music video for the song was a regular on MTV when it launched on August 1, 1981.
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Lyrics
Oh oh, yea, yea
I love you more than I can say
I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
Oh oh, yea, yea
I miss you every single day
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
Don’t you know I need you so
Tell me please I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Oh oh, yea, yea
I miss you more than i can say
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
Oh, don’t you know I need you so
So tell me please I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Oh oh, yea, yea
I love you more than I can say
I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say (more than I can say)
I love you twice as much tomorrow (more than I can say)
I love you twice as much tomorrow
I love you more than I can say
(More than I can say) I love you more than words can say yeah