"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.

The song was written by guitarist Sonny Curtis and drummer Jerry Allison in around an hour in 1959.

After Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash on February 3, 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.

[4] 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 No.

Author Allen J. Weiner in The Beatles: The Ultimate Recording Guide (p. 206) confirms this, noting that it came from a setlist made at the time by George Harrison.

2 on the UK Singles Chart,[9] while it spent two weeks atop the Kent Music Report in Australia.