{"id":2127,"date":"2020-07-09T05:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2020-10-09T05:13:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:13:05","slug":"sonny-curtis-wrote-songs-for-mary-tyler-moore-and-the-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Curtis wrote songs for Mary Tyler Moore and The Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonnycurtis.com\/\">Sonny Curtis<\/a> (born May 9, 1937, Meadow, Texas) is an American singer and songwriter. He was a teenage pal and band member with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas. Curtis joined The Crickets after Holly&#8217;s death in 1959, and soon took over the lead vocalist role in addition to lead guitar. Curtis is the author of 189 registered works on BMI.com including five BMI award winners. He is a member of the Nashville Songwriter&#8217;s Hall Of Fame and the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Crickets).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYgKcUDZ-E0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;Love Is All Around&#8221;<br \/>\nComposed and Performed by Sonny Curtis<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHC2Mnf_HXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;I Fought The Law&#8221;<br \/>\nComposed by Sonny Curtis<br \/>\nPerformed by the Clash<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDv8m2N-qdk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8220;Walk Right Back&#8221;<br \/>\nComposed by Sonny Curtis<br \/>\nPerformed by the Everly Brothers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Curtis (born May 9, 1937, Meadow, Texas) is an American singer and songwriter. He was a teenage pal and band member with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas. Curtis joined The Crickets after Holly&#8217;s death in 1959, and soon took over the lead vocalist role in addition to lead guitar.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}