Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law

[OrutheGuru]

Bobby Fuller representing EL PASO, TEXAS

[MisFire45]

First version was Sunny Curtis and The Crickets, The came The Bobby Fuller Four, Then Clash and other covers, I personally like this version the best and The Crickets version 2nd best.

[spacepatrolman]

@MisFire45 The sheet music [ with bobby on the cover] reads robbing people with a zip gun

[SlashManEXE]

@MisFire45 Even Bobby didn't do it first. It became a local hit in some areas, and all it took was the Bobby Fuller Four's definitive version to put it on the charts.

[Baltimora1957]

Awesome song and fantastic singer. Could've been the next Buddy Holly! Rest In Peace Bobby.

[blueticecho]

Just wondering back then did these guys cut their own hair ?

[purbrookian]

But remember it was written by Sonny Curtis and initially recorded by the Crickets.

[hangemhigh2000]

Thanks hatefull66

[pontiacguy77]

Thumbs up if youve actually fought the law and lost...

[MONGOOSE1ful]

You Know what i said about The Beau Brummels,goes double for these guys!-

i love Bobby Fuller! i was very sad to hear about his untimely demise,just as he was

at the height of his career. they even did an UNSOLVED MYSTERY seg about him!

whatever the case of this tragedy-Bobby Fuller was THE best,,and his Music will

live-on forever!

[blueticecho]

Cappin people with a Mac 9... I fought the Po Po and the Po Po won.

[buffspringfield]

I was 16 time this came out with an attitude to match.......

[thenumber1uncle]

they never figured out who murdered him.......

[Chacmool]

Otra de las grandes rolas clasicas de "Estudiantes 12-60", que en México se conoció con el título de "Contra la ley", muy ritmica, especialmente en el requinteo! Como dato "curioso" pare ser quer esta fue la canción que utilizó el US Army para sacar a Noriega de la Nunciatura en Panama, se la ponian todo el dia y a todo volumen! yo creo que se la aprendió de memoria!

[jacks5101]

I fought the law and the law won, but I told them ya, I knew it was wrong, I did it anyway, glad those days are long gone, but if I could sing, this is what it would have been everytime those turn keys popped in lol

[Taylor121051]

This song reminds me of my 3 brothers........Love this song....

[pauladasexy]

I love this song so much

[terrencehowes7]

bobby fullers version is not the original either,tho probably the best,sonny curtis wrote the tune,and the crickets released the hit post buddy holly,around 1958...

[akassassan]

I was in Canada (Medicine Hat Alberta) in October 1973 and saw the “Frank Fuller Four” at a bar called the Royal, who sang this. I bought a Tape from them for $2 (long Gone) which had this song on.....Now to my question.......is it the same group?

[chuckstubbe]

@akassassan not to long after this song Bobby Fuller was found dead in his car....police ruled it a suicide,but others think he was killed.

[gotch09]

Now this is the song you play SCREAMING on the radio tooling down the road.

[bubbagump2100]

Colton Harris-Moore is singing this now!

[6silhouette5]

Back in the mid 1960's, my pals and I fought the law out in Ojai, Cal., and the law lost.! Sheet, they were messin with teens from Orange County!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gnvair]

RIP Bobby.

[freebyrd915]

Thank you for this video of our home town hero Bobby Fuller was a graduate of Burges High School in EL PASO, TEXAS.

[aliciastef]

great song.....brings back memories....totally rocks !!!!

[gherkamum]

Great old track

love the footage

5*********

terry

[bluesonthelake]

The clip of the jail guard dancing "the monkey" with Lada Edmund Jr is still kinda funny after all these years. Thanks for sharing this kinescope from NBC's Hullabaloo. May Mr. Fuller's murderer(s) be brought to justice and may Bobby be inducted into the rock hall someday.

[s5fly55]

Sau geiles lied :-D 5/5

[yougavemepower]

There is something insanely cool about this video.

[sierria64]

hey i saw unsolved mysteries ..bobby fuller was murdered by his wife and her boyfriend

[shonshrinks]

Great song

[ironcarvel]

Yep. They used to lip sync much more frequently in those days, and the mics sometimes had funny, futuristic shapes. Nonetheless, they were just for decoration.

[SlashManEXE]

This was live. They recorded four studio versions, and this one is different then all of them.

[ZenithArkProject]

Look at the mics they're singing into. WTF?

[JustinFromSydney]

Chuck Norris fought the law. And won.

[mariusz92abg]

:D I love it!

[cheskabelle]

i like the dead kennedy's version!!!!!!!, but this one is really good

[faszkorbacs1]

@cheskabelle yes, but it's the original version, not a cover. but i like dk too.:)

[armitius66]

DKs version is more truthful!!

[yaiwolf1]

Bobby put the song on the rock in roll map.. Byran Adams, Stray Cats did covers that were great also..

[sidekickdaz]

The Clash made this thier own.

[Choogler1]

the clash blow..........

[00JTM]

Good song.

[kellyadvent]

having petrol pored down your throat and set alight to i think more than suspicious. I think. Obviously someone did not like his singing.

[dlagrua]

Three months after this top ten hit Bobby Fuller was found dead under suspicious circumastances. He was 23 and on can only wonder what might have been.

[Levente20]

this is the best version

[lgacouldbedangerous]

i preffer the Sonny Curtis version

and the Dead kennedys version ja ja ja

[aldrickbarber35]

Dead Kennedys version sucks...

It reeks of the un-explainable...

[unclecracker555]

i love how so many cheese dicks out there think this is a new song (green day wrote it, no the clash wrote it) yo dude does your dad own a record player?

bobby fuller

[travestyuk]

Not to make you look like a tosser, but this is a cover too. I fought the law is a Sonny Curtis and The Crickets song.

[MiliebWoW]

never heard anyone say it was a green day song lol. i HAVE heard people say it was a clash song though haha.

[skankidd]

hahah cheesedick!....you made a really smart statement

[DTHTH13]

it wasnt the clash who wrote it.. though im not sure who was.. but the first to record it were The Crickets and Sonny Curtis

[KayetanBucker]

You fail, this is a cover, Sony Curtis wrote the original

[edusentenced]

woooooooooooow!!!!!!!

[Bo618]

terrific song thanks

[sandervar]

temón, am&qr

[Foxtrox15]

BFV!

[nickolas95]

know here is the original even though the clash did the modern faster verision of this original song

[AndSoSheWrites]

Original is Sunny Curtis and the Crickets.

It saddens me that they don't get the proper credit :[

[chevrolet1960]

Where are all these 20 year olds!! I'm in the same age group and you don't see a lot of young people liking this music, would like to see you at some of the RNR clubs that are around.

[jimbogfrog]

ima youngen :):)

im 15 and i gotta say this is a greeeat song lovely to lisen and sing along to always garrentied to put a smile on your face if u add a silly dance and a cowboy hat :P

[chavkill1337]

Perfect song for GTA4 LOL driving away from the cops FUUUUUUUU

[rainpaw4]

it would be a perfect song for the people in the back of a police car

[beautifulmess72]

everyone thinks the clash did the original. how small minded some are.

i love this song so much

[DanoruX]

Doesn't make them small minded. The version that The Clash did is by far the best known one...

[muskratrowdy]

by far the best known?!?! I guess it depends upon which generation you are asking. For Boomers this BF4 version is the first and in some cases the only that comes to mind. The Clash version is good too. I think it's cool when a younger generation does a cover on an earlier song. To me it shows a respect and interest in the older generation.

[DanoruX]

I'm not saying either one is better or worse, but do a search for "I fought the law" followed by each band name and you'll find more results with the Clash than Bobby Fuller.

And to clear things up by "best known" I meant more people know about it, not that it was the best version.

[muskratrowdy]

You are right about the number of views for the Clash cover. It just means that more people who use You Tube are familiar with the newer song. More Gen. X'ers than Boomers are familiar with YouTube. The only difference I don't like about the Clash version is how they say "..I killed my baby" instead of "..I left my baby" Even Green Day uses the original lyrics. Just Clash being Clash, I guess, probably appeals their fans. Neither version is 'better', if you like it, it's good.

[QuamCelerrime]

Even worse how the Dead Kennedys rewrote it as "I fought the law and I won."

[aznprodigy212]

I'm not sure what you're talking about with the lyrics. I don't know what version you've heard, by the studio recording of the clash song says "i left my baby" too.

[muskratrowdy]

Live at Lyceum, London. From the movie "Rude Boy". It is on You Tube.

[myfatproductions]

same 4 me!

im 20 years old but me and some friends mostly listen to this kind of music after some alcohol its much more fun ;)

much more fun as stupid rap music about shooting at people and using drugs!

[VelveteenBombshell]

I don't like rap at ALL, but that doesn't mean you should hate on it.

The Velvet Underground did A LOT of drugs and wrote about it.

[vjoagar]

@beautifulmess72 If it wasn't for covers and remakes of old songs, some might never have lived this long.

[mark1138]

@beautifulmess72

not small minded, just not exposed to the fact. I didn't know until I searched "Let Her Dance"

[teidenzero]

@beautifulmess72 but also this one isn't the original :)

[JAMAY52]

@beautifulmess72 oh you kind of hsve to give them a break--us old guys know--lol, we see this all the time . It is one reason the newer bands copy == someone else made it a hit

[RocksNotDead101]

@beautifulmess72 In all fairness, thinking something and being incorrect doesn't make you small minded.

[strummeresque]

@beautifulmess72 Who thinks the Clash did the original?

[Bigboomar]

@beautifulmess72

I'm pretty sure Sonny Curtis did the first?

[380800]

I heard this this song in Battlefield Vietnam.

[Elsoldador]

me too! i love to hear it when im piloting helis xD

[myfatproductions]

i fucked the law! i burned the law! i raped the judge!

fuck yall greetings from hollandia!

nice song

[Mynameismethos1]

best song ever

[raponte1955]

I cannot but notice how the guitar strumming closely resembles that of the Crickets, Buddy Holly's group. Also, the drummer looks like the Crickets'

[Welshman2008]

WELL THEY WROTE THE SONG ORIGINALLY

[monsterman100]

gay 50s or 60s lol

[linkabove]

monsterman100: I can tell by the videos u chose as favorites that u have crappy taste in videos and probably crappy taste in music. The 50s and 60s have great music. People wouldn't do cover songs to begin with if they didn't have respect for such great bands.

[monsterman100]

linkabove: i just said the 50s and the 60s where gay not the song i love this song no matter what band is playing it!

[linkmerik]

I like this version better than the Clash Version even though the Clash Version is more popular

[david1952000]

Eddie Nash most likely orchestrated Fuller's murder over a woman named Melodie. Fuller's band played at Nash's club PJ's in LA.

[dedebelle]

Eddie Nash didn't buy PJs until early 70s, then changed it to the Starwood. Supposedly he later bragged that he had been behind Bobby Fuller's murder, so you may be right.

[redwing46901]

I loved the 50's,60's and 70's genre of music......It is however unfortunate that there was some big losses of wonderful singers and intrument players during those era's too.....but,we do fortunetly still have the great music in which they composed,played and recorded to remember them by. LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[electrosiam]

best

[Foxnaruto30]

i dont think anyone killed bobby fuller

[rickypwnz]

i fought the law and the law one

[pantherpawed]

Forgotten? No - what makes you say such a thing?

[DeceasedDeath]

This song was first made by Sonny Curtis and the Crickets, Buddy Holly's band, after Holly died in 1959. Bobby Fuller Four had the biggest hit with the song, though.

[srf1969]

This was a great song. I finally found out who sang the oldies but goodies song. I thought it was "I caught the law and the law one". Then, I heard another singer singing this song and I found out it was called "I fought the law". I liked the part when they sang "Her robbing people with a six gun". I may buy the CD of this song.

[darilc1966]

i still wonder if Lapd is willing to reopen this case because bobby was murdered

[sharonkayb]

The incompetent LAPD???

I think not!!!

[tiffanylovesanthony]

dude lapd hell no. they wont reopen the cases for tupac shakur cuz they dont care about this shit. its fucked up too cuz u could giv them the perfect evidence n they still wouldnt give a fuck

[Godis87]

Didnt buddy holly do this first??

[jessfulloffun]

Nope, Sonny Curtis and The Crickets did it first.

[Godis87]

its practicly the same thing;)

Beacuse buddy holly formed the crickets

[dojCerealkiller]

It was after Buddy Holly died.

[ivery28]

Battlefield Vietnam soundtrack.

amazing

[Waldocounty]

Hot chicks behind bars...gotta love it. ANYWAY, this is a forgotten, great mid-60's tune by a Southern band hopelessly competing with the British Invasion.

[pyrui]

Beautiful song. It was a favourite song of US soldiers in Vietnam.

[bit50s]

A little trivia......the guy that wrote this song also wrote the Mary Tyler Moore TV show theme song. I don't know his name.

[Nicosprintos]

Sonny Curtis and The Crickets

I won !

[miguel2096]

ohhhhh beuatiful song favorites of Bruce Springsteen THE BOSS

[Waldocounty]

miguel2096: Always wondered who anointed him "the boss." He sings/mumbles/grunts like the Frankenstein monster and is way too political (all about taking your concert/record money to give to Democrats).

[luddybuddy]

way better than the one that the clash did i thought

[Isonux]

The original, as well as any cover is better than the clash version. They blow.

[xeno106]

well, with a few exceptions that is always true

[inFAMOUS21Ricky]

You Blow Asshole.

[antmolinaro]

Tanks Tez..this is an Amazing version!!

[williedb47]

Classic. Thanks for sharing.

[joeholness]

this could esaily be considered the first punk song

[owg59]

is bobby fuller's death still considered a suicide? i've heard he was murdered.

[mikeMCSG]

Yes the only man to beat himself up to death.

The law certainly didn't do him any favours there.

[jedi69outcast]

I always thought Del Shannon did this, I love this song

[joeholness]

sonny curtis and the crickets

[barilko5551]

Just plain and simple...great times...great music - FUCK YOU rap and anything even remotely close....God Bless America and I wish to hell we could go back to good ol" days...

[pagman95]

thats right im then mayby born in 1995 but i love the 60's 70's 80's and the 90's

fucking rap shit and wanebee gangsters

[CaptainRockNRoll]

are the 90's really seen as that far away? shit, i'm gettin old.

[pagman95]

also back to the 80's?

xD

[narutofan1111111111]

hey now... ur right but some rap is ok like the ones not about drugs or gang fights or how someone got shot... like real problems... i love this kinda music for some reason...

[Hayley2045]

LMFAO at the drummer with his shifty eyes at

1:08 to 1:10

HAHA i love this song its BRILL :D X

[Arkady63]

Two other things:

1 - There's probably no way of knowing where she is today, but that blonde dancer at the beginning of the number is sexy as hell.

2 - I still laugh when I think of a T shirt I once saw: a cartoon of a guy holding a rake, all bummed out and up to his chin in grass reading "I fought the lawn and the lawn won!"

LOL!

[Arkady63]

A true classic!

I don't know where you people get this footage but all I can do is say "thanks!"

Brilliant stuff!

[Lsbud]

Thanks for that. Did the rest of his band keep playing? Or did they join another group etc.?

[rpalena]

they still played. his brother took over i think.

[Lsbud]

Thanks for posting this. Best up-close pictures I've seen of Bobby Fuller. What happened to him? These were fine, clean-cut young men. Who was the girl in jail?