Sony Cortis, writer “Filter of Law”, dies, the subject of Mary Tyler Moore

Sony Cortis, who wrote the classics such as “I fought the law”, “right -wing” and the subject of “Mary Tyler Moore”, “Love Everywhere”, died on Friday after a sudden illness, according to Social media yet By his daughter. Cortis worked closely with Body Holly and performed with his band, cockroaches, before the death of the legendary singer. It was 88.

Born in Texas, Curtis was born in 1937 for a musical family – the performance of his uncles in the Blogras group called The Mayfield Brothers. Body Holly met at the age of 15 and formed a group with him, and opened legends such as Elvis Bresley, Johnny Cash and Karl Berkins, and played the guitar in many of his recordings. Holly left for a tour with Salim Wittman before joining Holly and his band The Crickets in 1958, shortly before Holly’s death in a plane crash in February 1959 – “the day the music died”, as described by “American Pie”.

Cortis took over as the individual director of Cricket and released his song “I am the Filter of the Law” in the first album after Holly, “Intyle with the Crickets”. Although this song and no other song from the album, “more than I can say” (Cowrintten with the Dermas player Jerry Alison) was one of the voices of cockroaches, they became great successes when covering it later by other artists: the first by Bobby Fuller four (and then the clash) and the last by Bobby in (and then by Liu Sad).

Cortis was formulated in the army in 1959 and wrote “Walking back” during basic training. During a three -day pass, he played with Alison, who was playing at the time of the drums of Everly. Alison brought back to the brothers and Cortis was the top 10 other songs (Anne Murray also recorded great success in the 1970s).

However, the song “Love Is All”, “Love Is Wood” was released, for the first time in 1970 as a topic of “Mary Tyler MORE Show”, a common TV program necessary for seven years. like I noticed by Hollywood Reporter, Cortis got a four -page treatment of “a little girl wandering in this small community in the Middle West and moved to the big city in Minneapolis and gets a job at a news station and rents an apartment that she has difficult to provide,” as he told CBS on Sunday morning.

“I entered the part that rented an apartment, I had difficulty providing it and wrote,” How will you make it alone? … this world is very big, and this time you are alone. “

Cortis continued to write and perform, as a single artist and with cockroaches, in his seventies. His other songs include “The Straight Life” (covered by Glen Campbell and Bobby Goldsburo), “I am not a stranger to the rain” (Keith Whitley), “A fool never learns” (Andy Williams) and others. He was recruited in the famous Nashville Song Hall in 1991.