Some Saturday Reads

 Today was the Pennsylvania Derby:

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Obit:  Musician and songwriter Sonny Curtis, once a member of Buddy Holly's Crickets and who penned "I Fought the Law" and the theme song of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died at the age of 88.

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Born in Meadow, Texas on May 9, 1937 to cotton farmers, Curtis learned to play the guitar at the age of 7, inspired by his musician uncles who formed a bluegrass group called the Mayfield Brothers. A childhood friend of Holly’s, the two began making demo recordings in the mid-50s, a collaboration that led to opening for the likes of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash and soon spawned early iterations of what would eventually be the rock and roll band whose name inspired The Beatles’s nomenclature. Curtis joined the band a year after Holly officially founded The Crickets in 1957, shortly before Holly’s death in an airplane crash in 1959. Though Curtis was drafted shortly thereafter, he served as both lead guitarist and singer, writing hits “Walk Right Back” (The Everly Brothers), “More Than I Can Say” (Bobby Vee, Leo Sayer) and the seminal “I Fought the Law,” which was immortalized through covers by The Bobby Fuller Four, The Clash and Green Day.