Bobby Fuller Four Version
| "I Fought the Law" | |||||||||
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Single cover of the Bobby Fuller version of "I Fought the Law" |
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| Single by The Bobby Fuller Four | |||||||||
| from the album I Fought the Law | |||||||||
| B-side | "Little Annie Lou" | ||||||||
| Released | December 1965 (1965-12) | ||||||||
| Format | Vinyl | ||||||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||||||
| Length | 2:14 | ||||||||
| Label | Mustang | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Sonny Curtis | ||||||||
| Producer | Bob Keane | ||||||||
| The Bobby Fuller Four singles chronology | |||||||||
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After enjoying regional success in Texas, Bobby Fuller and band decided to switch to a major label—Del-Fi Records under Mustang Records—and they became known as the Bobby Fuller Four. While producing minor hits, the band broke the national top ten when they re-recorded "I Fought the Law" in 1965 with Bobby Fuller (vocals, guitar), Randy Fuller (backing vocals, bass guitar), Jim Reese (backing vocals, guitar), and DeWayne Quirico (drums).
Just six months after the song made its first appearance on the Billboard Top 100 chart, Fuller was found dead from asphyxiation in his mother's car in a parking lot near his Los Angeles, California apartment. The Los Angeles Police Department declared the death an apparent suicide, but others believed him to have been murdered. Fuller was 23 years old.
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