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Sonny Curtis, member of the Crickets who wrote the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme song, dies at 88 - CBS News

He started out as an early music partner of Buddy Holly in the 1950s, but was probably best known for his songwriting...and he wrote a lot of tunes that made it into the charts and got covered afterwards by others, too:

 

 

If this song sounds familiar, it should; it was a big hit for Leo Sayer when he covered it in the '70's:

 

 

He wrote and sang the Mary Tyler Moore theme song 'Love Is All Around', as mentioned in the news article above:

 

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