Fact #15026

Sonny Curtis (co-writer) : J.I. and myself wrote that song in an hour or so, and we just didn't have words for that section, so we just sang "Wo wo, yay yay/ Love you more than I can say", and  kept saying "We'll put something in there instead of 'wo-wo yay-yay'" not realising that we already had ourselves a real nice hook! Luckily we never found anything to put in there, and by the time we made it to the studio, we said, "Oh heck, just leave it". I've been glad ever since that we were not smart enough to think up of some lyrics to fill that!

We had known (producer) Snuff Garrett back in Lubbock, and when he moved to Los Angeles in 1960, he had stayed in an apartment with J.I. and myself, and Trini Lopez. Soon after, he became  an A + R man at Liberty Records in Los Angeles, and he had actually signed The Crickets to Liberty while I was in the army.

Now he also handled Bobby Vee, who was really big at the time, with songs like Devil Or Angel and Rubber Ball, and Snuff had always liked More Than I Can Say. I remember that when J.I. and myself played on Eddie Cochran's last Liberty recording session in 1960 before he died, Snuff had thought of getting Eddie to do that song, but of course that never happened. However, Snuff always kept the song in mind, and Bobby liked the song too. They did a great record of it - I really do like their version.

(Source : not known)