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Sonny Curtis, who was a member of the Crickets, Buddy Holly\u2019s legendary band, has died. He was 88. <\/p>\n
Curtis\u2019 daughter, Sarah Curtis Graziano, said he died on Friday in a Nashville hospital, due to complications of pneumonia, according to the New York Times. <\/a><\/p>\n Born in West Texas, Curtis wrote hundreds of songs and performed by such acts as The Everly Brothers and teen idol Bobby Vee. <\/p>\n But it was his work as a member of Buddy Holly\u2019s band The Crickets where he made his mark, playing guitar on the classic Holly song \u201cThat\u2019ll Be the Day\u201d in 1957.<\/p>\n After Holly left the band, the Crickets reformed and Curtis wrote the song \u201cI Fought the Law,\u201d which later became a hit for the Bobby Fuller Four in 1965. <\/p>\n Curtis later started writing commercial jingles, and, in 1970, he penned the theme song to \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show.\u201d<\/p>\n The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. <\/p>\n In addition to his daughter, he is survived by his wife, Louise Halverson, three granddaughters and a sister, Alene Richardson.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\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.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonny Curtis, who was a member of the Crickets, Buddy Holly\u2019s legendary band, has died. He was 88. Curtis\u2019 daughter, Sarah Curtis Graziano, said he died on Friday in a Nashville hospital, due to complications of pneumonia, according to the New York Times. Born in West Texas, Curtis wrote hundreds of songs and performed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041010","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=2041010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}