Randy Fuller obit

 Singer and song Writer Randy Fuller Has Died

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He was best known for his work in the popular 1960s rock group the Bobby Fuller Four with his older brother, Bobby Fuller.

On May 16, Randall Fuller, born on January 29, 1944, died on January 29, 1944, younger brother of Bobby Fuller and bass guitarist of the Bobby Fuller Four, founded in 1962: he played drums on their two studio albums RLA King Of The Wheels (1965) and I Fought The Law (1966) and was seen with them in 1966 in the beach film The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini in which they also accompanied Nancy Sinatra. Randy played on all of Bobby Fuller's El Paso recordings and built the recording studio with him in their parental home where they were all recorded. One of those singles on their own Exeter label was a cover of a song by The Crickets post-Buddy Holly, I Fought The Law which appeared on the LP In Style With The Crickets in 1960, and when they re-recorded that song for Del-Fi Records it became a Top 10 hit in 1966. Strangely enough, they also scored a hit with another cover of that LP, namely Love's Made A Fool Of You, a re-recording of Buddy Holly's Love's Made A Fool Of You for The Crickets, also a hit with us in 1981 for Matchbox. From that In Style With The Crickets LP, BF4 also covered the song Baby My Heart. Barely six months after I Fought The Law entered the Billboard Top 100, Bobby Fuller was found lifeless in a parking lot in his mother's car on July 18, 1966. The official cause of death was first ruled suicide and later changed to "an asphyxiation accident due to exhaust inhalation" (the car's exhaust was plugged), but the possibility remains that he was murdered. Possible reasons for this could be drug-related, the theory that the police were targeting rock artists (see also the bizarre accident involving Jimmie Rodgers in late 1967), the mafia, and even the collection of a life insurance policy taken out in his name by a bigwig from the record company. The group broke up, but drummer Dewayne Quirico convinced Randy Fuller to continue with the group, which in the first half of the 1960s mixed the sound of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Roy Orbison (they covered Rock House) with vocal harmonies and surf ( Thunder Reef by The Shindigs from 1964 is The BF4 on Del-Fi sublabel Mustang. Randy Fuller released singles as The Randy Fuller Four and under his own name and still performed with BF4 drummer Dewayne Quirico (the album Carryin' On in 1992). , sometimes with Deke Dickerson on guitar.He also played bass on a few songs on Let The Chicks Fall Where They May, the debut album by Chris Sprague's band The Sprague Brothers, in 1999. In 2015, together with Miriam Linna of Norton Records, he wrote the biography I Fought the Law: The Life And Strange Death Of Bobby Fuller, which reissued a lot of early Bobby Fuller rock 'n' roll material. In addition, Ace Records (GB) released several BF4 albums.

By 1963, Randy and the band went to Hollywood to play a set of gigs and look for a major record deal. While they didn't find any takers, Bob Keane of Del-Fi Records showed interest. Meanwhile, the band returned to El Paso and put out more singles, the most popular being "I Fought the Law". Randy, inspired by the film Rebel Without a Cause, convinced Bobby to record the song from In Style with the Crickets. Later that year, Randy pushed Bobby into returning to Hollywood, where they were then signed to Del-Fi by Keane.

After initially struggling to put out a hit, the band, now dubbed The Bobby Fuller Four, found success with "Let Her Dance". The song was noted for its bottle-tapping rhythm and catchy bass line, both the result of Randy's input. The success of "Let Her Dance" was later eclipsed by the group's re-recording of "I Fought the Law". With the professional mixing by Keane and Randy's driving bass, the song became a national hit at No. 9 on the national charts.