Sonny Curtis — the songwriter best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song and the frontman for Buddy Holly‘s band The Crickets — is dead at 88. On Saturday, September 20, Sonny’s daughter, ...

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Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ’n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song ...

On Saturday, September 20, Sonny’s daughter, Sarah, announced her father’s death in a Facebook post. “I’m heartbroken to tell you that my dad Sonny passed away yesterday after a sudden illness,” she ...