'MTM' Theme Singer-Songwriter Dies at 88

[Mark Jeffries]

Sonny Curtis was a founding member of Buddy Holly's Crickets, but left before Holly's success--as a songwriter, his credits include the Bobby Fuller Four's "I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)" and the Everly Brothers' "Walk Right Back," but he may be best known for writing and singing "Love is All Around," the song that brought on every week the woman who could turn the world on with her smile, who could take a nothing day and suddenly make it all feel worthwhile, Mary Richards (or Mary Tyler Moore), and she (and he) made it after all--on Friday after a sudden illness:

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