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Curtis died Friday after a \u201csudden illness,\u201d his daughter, Sarah, announced on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Curtis also wrote the rebellious \u201cI Fought the Law<\/a>\u201d in 1958 and recorded it with The Crickets following the death of Holly, Ritchie Valens<\/a>, J.P. Richardson<\/a> (\u201cThe Big Bopper<\/a>\u201d) and pilot Roger Peterson<\/a> in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959.<\/p>\n The Bobby Fuller Four took the song to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, and it also was memorably covered by The Clash, Roy Orbison<\/a>, Hank Williams Jr.<\/a>, Green Day<\/a>, the Dead Kennedys and dozens of other acts over the years.<\/p>\n His songwriting credits also included \u201cWalk Right Back\u201d and \u201cMore Than I Can Say,\u201d top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 for The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonny Curtis, the singer and guitarist who played with Buddy Holly, fronted The Crickets and wrote and performed \u201cLove Is All Around,\u201d the indelible theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday after a \u201csudden illness,\u201d his daughter, Sarah, announced on Facebook. Curtis also wrote the rebellious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2037464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2037463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sonny-Curtis-Crickets-Frontman-Behind-\u2018The-Mary-Tyler-Moore-Show.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}