Curtis was a childhood friend of Buddy Holly and even opened for Elvis Presley before he became a household name Among his hundreds of songwriting credits were the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore ...

Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday “after a sudden ...

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, ...

(AP) - 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 ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted singer-songwriter Sonny Curtis, who fronted Buddy Holly’s backing band later known as The Crickets and eventually penned and performed the theme song for The Mary ...