More Than I Can Say The Crickets The Baldy Holly Band

"More Than I Can Say" is a song written by Sonny Curtis and Jerry Allison, both former members of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets and was recorded by their band in 1959 soon after Holly's death and was released in 1960. Their original version hit #42 on British Record Retailer Chart on 5/12/60. It has been notably performed by singers Bobby Vee and Leo Sayer.

Bobby Vee
Vee is an American pop music singer whose prominence in the music industry arose from tragedy. After Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in February 1959, a then-teenaged Vee was one of a group of local musicians recruited to play at the next leg of a scheduled concert in Fargo, North Dakota.In 1961, Vee (whose other hit singles include "Take Good Care of My Baby" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes") recorded "More Than I Can Say", and it reached #61 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was a bigger hit in the United Kingdom, where the song and its B-side, "Staying In", peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart.

LEO SAYER
Sayer is a British singer-songwriter who enjoyed the majority of his chart success in the 1970s and early 1980s. He had two singles reach #1 in the U.S., "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You", both in 1977.He nearly had a third song achieve this feat, as his cover version of "More Than I Can Say" spent five weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1980 and January 1981, kept from the top spot by Lady by Kenny Rogers and (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon. Sayer's version of the song was certified a Gold Record by the RIAA.It also spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart.In the U.K., the song peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart, while it spent two weeks atop the Kent Music Report in Australia. Sayer has stated 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."

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• Leo Sayer
• The Crickets
• The Baldy Holly Band
• Bobby Vee
• Buddy Holly
• More Than I Can Say
• Elvis Presley
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[johnnyweep59]

Extremely well done! great lead Guitar work too! have a great 2012 Jamie :)

[cbfall]

Outstanding vocal & excellent musicianship by all involved!!! One of my favorite Crickets songs!!

[TINMANschannel]

sounding great, jamie an i liked the sound of the lead guitar

cool job guys

[allyhoot]

love this song im sat singing and tapping feet along to it another great song jamie x

[strollby]

Brilliant, you and your group do a great job, thanks for posting

[Mandolin1944]

I love this song and you knock it out of the park!! FINE job guys -- fine job! And strumming along on the "King of the Flattops" don't hurt none either! (<:

[robdelap]

Cool - I can remeber going to see Bobby Vee at City Hall in 1985 and he covered this.

Great version boys. Great solo by Phil.

Rob

[JackGAdams]

Very nicely sung Jamie... great accompaniment also.

Jack

[LeVol0ntaire]

Magnifique :)

[blueneptun1]

I love this song. great performance. thanks!