About The Song
For their 1984 album “Restless,” the Bellamy Brothers took a new approach. Burned out on California and Nashville, as far as recording was concerned, they headed to North Miami Beach to work at Criteria Sound Studio, a facility that opened in 1956 and has yielded nearly 120 gold and platinum albums. The studio’s credits include records by pop stars Julio Iglesias, Expose and Crosby, Stills & Nash. In fact, several of the musicians, arrangers and engineers on “Restless” worked directly on pop albums by the Bee Gees and Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine. The Bellamys’ co-producer, Steve Klein, also maintained ties to the studio.
Klein was an engineer at Criteria and had worked on several of the early John Cougar (Mellencamp) albums. He served as co-producer with Howard and David on the “Restless” album. The guys took their time making the record – several weeks in fact – because they wanted to take it easy, relax and enjoy the beach. The Criteria studio in Miami was the perfect place to do that.
The Bellamys led off the album with “Forget About Me” (which reached #5 on Billboard’s country singles chart) and “World’s Greatest Lover” (making it to #6), then returned to #1 on April 20, 1985 with “I Need More of You,” their first chart-topping single in two years.
David had been haunted by the melody for about six months before he composed lyrics to it. When “I Need More of You” was finished, the song was released overseas first and it turned out to be a top-selling pop record in Europe. Gauging that success prompted Curb to release the song in the United States and it shot to number one on Billboard’s country singles chart, causing label head Jimmy Bowen to jokingly quip, “We’re gonna start using Austria as a test market.”
After “I Need More of You’s” chart-topping finish, the Bellamys fell into the dreaded “number two curse” for a time, as they saw their next three singles stall out in the runner-up position. “Old Hippie” was blocked from the top by Earl Thomas Conley’s “Love Don’t Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)” and Alabama’s “Forty Hour Week (For a Livin’).” “Lie to You for Your Love” was nudged out by another Earl Thomas Conley record, “Nobody Falls Like a Fool.” Lastly, “Feelin’ the Feelin’” was upstaged by, you guessed it – Conley again with “Once in a Blue Moon.”
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Lyrics
I need more of you, changing my rain into sun
More of you, putting my blues on the run
Hearts burning like they were on fire
Flames changing our love to desire
Babe, my heart is screaming to say
Girl, we’ve got to go all the way
I need more of you, changing my rain into sun
More of you, putting my blues on the run
I need more of you, darlin’, I need more of you
More, anything less wouldn’t do
We ain’t been together too long
Strange, how did our love get so strong?
There’s nothing to keep us apart
We’ve got to catch up to our hearts
I need more of you, changing my rain into sun
More of you, putting my blues on the run
I need more of you, darlin’, I need more of you
More, anything less wouldn’t do
I need more of you, changing my rain into sun
More of you, putting my blues on the run
I need more of you, darlin’ I need more of you
More, anything less wouldn’t do
I need more of you, darlin’ I need more of you
More, anything less wouldn’t do