Living Between Notes

I Fought The Law Single: Bobby Fuller Four Album: I Fought the Law B-side: Little Annie Lou Released: October 1965 Genre: Garage rock, rock, and roll, rockabilly Songwriter: Sonny Curtis Sonny Curtis of The Crickets wrote, and the band recorded " I Fought the Law "  on the 1960 album  In Style With The Crickets  shortly after Buddy Holly 's death in 1959. The Bobby Fuller Four covered it in 1966. It became a top-ten hit for the band. Fuller's song version ranked Number 177 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It's named one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock   by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.