Song · Bobby Fuller Four
“I Fought The Law” by Bobby Fuller Four
Released 1968
“I Fought The Law” by Bobby Fuller Four appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2012 and 2020. It was first released in 1968. Its best result is #379 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,618 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Sonny Curtis wrote "I Fought the Law" in 1958 and cut it the next year with the Crickets, freshly installed in Buddy Holly's old spot on guitar, but their version barely got on the radio. It took the Bobby Fuller Four to turn it into a top-ten hit.
Theirs is the version that stuck. Rolling Stone ranked it 175th on its list of the greatest songs of all time in 2004, and the same year the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame counted it among the 500 songs that shaped rock.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 379 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1174 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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