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3 unusual facts about Chris Montez


Chris Montez

The More I See You album yielded two additional Top 40 singles for Montez: The title cut, plus "There Will Never Be Another You".

The film, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story, was previewed by Montez, director Burt Kearns and producer Brett Hudson at the Paso Robles Digital Film Festival in Paso Robles, California in November 2009, the Fest for Beatles Fans in March 2010 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Montez grew up in Hawthorne, California, influenced by the Latino-flavored music of his community and the success of Ritchie Valens.


The More I See You

In 1966, Chris Montez had the most commercially successful and well known version of the song and it is this version that has been used many times in movies, notably at the beginning of the famous club scene in Roman Polanski's Frantic, starring Harrison Ford.


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