Sonny Curtis

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7 mentions 2 recordings first heard Feb 2025 last heard 21 Sep ±0 this month

Songwriter of the original “I Fought the Law”

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Chloe VeltmanNPR News Now · NPR News: 09-21-2025 12AM EDT · 4:08 · 21 Sep
…Sonny Curtis was born during the Great Depression to cotton farmers in Texas.…
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Chloe VeltmanNPR News Now · NPR News: 09-21-2025 12AM EDT · 3:57 · 21 Sep
…Curtis also wrote and performed Love Is All Around, the theme song for the Mary Tyler Moore show.…
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Chloe VeltmanNPR News Now · NPR News: 09-21-2025 12AM EDT · 3:39 · 21 Sep
…Sonny Curtis wrote I Fought the Law in the late 1950s when he was a member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets.…
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Dale WillmanNPR News Now · NPR News: 09-21-2025 12AM EDT · 3:31 · 21 Sep
…Curtis died Friday near Nashville from a sudden illness, that's……
Dale WillmanNPR News Now · NPR News: 09-21-2025 12AM EDT · 3:25 · 21 Sep
…Curtis was best known for penning the hit I Fought……
Dale WillmanNPR News Now · NPR News: 09-21-2025 12AM EDT · 3:21 · 21 Sep
…The songwriter and singer Sonny Curtis has died.…
Carter RoyConspiracy Theories · I Fought the Law: The Death of Bobby Fuller · 0:31 · Feb 2025
…Written by Sonny Curtis and filled with up-tempo melodic harmonies,……
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