1962
- Mike Curb graduated from
high school where he was elected President of the high school choir.
- "Speedway"
recorded by the Heyburners for Titanic Records was written by Curb and
performed by his high school/college rock and roll band at Cal State
University.
1963
- Mike Curb - signed
by Bobby Darin to a songwriter contract
- "Warpath"
was released on Cude Records (later released on Marc Records) and
"Pow Wow" recorded by The Sudells (Curb's high
school/college rock and roll band)for American Artists Records.
- Composed "All The
Winds" by Four Lads - released by United Artist Records
The song was also recorded by the Baytowners on Mercury/Smash Records
- Composed song
"Always Waitin'" recorded by three artists and released by
RCA Parlofone/Mercury Records (by Paris Sisters - produced by Curb)
- Composed
"Thoughtless", recorded by the Crickets on Brunswick Records
- Composed and produced
records for Columbia Records, Dore Records, Deltone Records, Smash
Records, Mercury Records, Capitol Records and Dot Records, United
Artist Records, Brunswick Records, Warner/Reprise Records
- Curb signed as artist to
Reprise/Warner Records at age 18
- First single
released on Reprise/Warner - "Hot Dawg" - released under the
name Mike Curb and the Curbstones
1964
- Curb signed as artist by
Mercury/Smash Records - released "Rebel (Without A Cause)"
- Hired by Mercury Records
to West Coast A&R job
- First Mercury album -
"The Buddies And The Compacts" (Curb version - "Little
Honda" on that album)
- Composed and produced
"You Meet The Nicest People On A Honda" ("Go Little
Honda") - Hondells. Honda's national commercial - Composed and
produced 10 songs for Hondells albums and singles.
- Curb formed
Sidewalk Records - later became Curb Records - Curb enters its first
distribution arrangement with Capitol/Tower, thanks to the belief of
Eddie Ray
1965
- First Curb/Sidewalk
record hits Billboard Hot 100 pop chart - Curb produced Apache 65
by The Arrows (The Arrows was Curb's high school band which included
Davie Allan and Larry Brown). Curb also wrote 7 songs on that album
- Curb signed as artist to
Capitol/Tower label - released first single - "Suzie
Darling"
- Composed and produced
the song "Life" by Joe Leahy - hits top 40 on Billboard AC
chart
- Released and produced
albums by Joe Leahy and composed 5 songs for those albums that were
released by Capitol/Tower
- Co-produced Timi Yuro's
records "The Big Mistake", "Teardrops Till Dawn"
- Curb produced first
single by Linda Rondstadt and The Stone Ponies for release on Sidewalk
Records
- Curb scores Skater Dater which is a short motion picture which wins the Cannes International Film Festival and is nominated for an Academy Award
- Sonny James receives BMI
awards for "I'll Keep Holding On (To Your Love)" and
"You're The Only World I Know"
1966
- Curb composed and
produced music for "Wild Angels" (film starring Peter
Fonda/Nancy Sinatra)
- Theme from "Wild
Angels" hits Billboard top 100 pop singles chart
- Wild Angels
soundtrack album hits top 20 on Billboard pop album chart - Top 10
Record World chart (Curb produced and wrote or co-wrote 11 of the
songs on album)
- Top 40 Billboard Chart
hit single "Blues Theme" recorded by Davie Allan and The
Arrows (produced and co-written by Curb)
- Ventures recorded Curb's
"Wild Angels" theme on their Billboard chart album Guitar
Freakout
- Sonny James receives BMI
award for "True Love's A Blessing"
- Curb scores the motion picture The Wild Angels which became a major soundtrack recording, and the them song "Blues Theme" became Curb's first top 40 composed and produced hit.
- Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys make their first recording on Curb's Sidewalk label.
1967
- Wild Angels Vol. II
- Billboard album chart (Curb composed 8 songs on the album)
- Curb composed and
produced album Devils Angels starring John Cassavetes - album and
single hit Billboard charts
- Co-scored soundtrack Golden
Breed released by Capitol Records
- Curb produced soundtrack
for motion picture "Thunder Alley" (Curb composed 6 of the
songs for the film)
- Curb composed music to
Billy Jack film (The Born Losers starring Tom Laughlin)
- ABC Executive Michael
Eisner hires Curb to compose the music for two animated weekly ABC TV
series, Hot Wheels and Cattanooga Cats
- Terry Stafford performed
Curb-written Billy Jack theme "Alone Never To Love Again"
- Sonny James receives BMI
award for "Room In Your Heart"
- Curb's Sidewalk label releases the soundtrack to the motion picture The Trip, starring Peter Fonda, which was Jack Nicholson's first motion picture. The music instroduced The Electric Flag, featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles.
1968
- Curb composed and
produced theme for Dick Clark's show American Bandstand
- Curb produced
soundtrack Wild In The Streets - #12 Billboard album chart with
single "Nothing Can Change The Shape Of Things To Come" - top
25 on Billboard album chart
- Curb co-composed 6
songs for the motion picture "Mondo Hollywood" including
theme song "Magic Night" by Mike Clifford
- Curb composed and
produced the soundtrack The Wild Racers
- Curb/Sidewalk label
released soundtrack album The Trip - single by Electric Flag
(featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles) - "Green and
Gold"
- Curb produced and
directed soundtrack for Savage Seven motion picture - released by
Atlantic Records featuring Cream and Iron Butterfly
- Curb forms partnership
with Jim Guercio (Poseidon Productions) and signs Chicago
- Sonny James receives
BMI award for "It's The Little Things"
- The Mike Curb Congregation is selected to be on the Glen Campbell weekly national CBS television show.
1969
- Mike Curb Congregation
became regular on Glen Campbell's CBS National television show
- Curb co-composed
and produced title song for motion picture entitled "Bunny
O'Hare", starring Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine
- Curb executive-produced
album featuring Mae West with the Mike Curb Congregation
- "Big In
Vegas" by Buck Owens becomes a top Top 5 Billboard Record and
becomes the first Curb published BMI Award
- Curb/Sidewalk released
soundtrack album Psych-Out, starring Jack Nicholson, in
association with Dick Clark Productions, featuring Strawberry Alarm
Clock and The Seeds
- Soundtrack Devils
Eight produced and co-composed by Curb, starring Christopher
George and Fabian
- Curb released album
entitled Pre-Flight by The Byrds which hit Billboard top 100
pop album chart
- Curb co-produced
soundtrack to Killers Three , featuring Merle Haggard, Bonnie
Owens, Dick Curless and Kay Adams
- Curb supervised music
for Carlo Ponti/Michelangelo Antonioni for MGM picture "Zabriskie
Point" featuring Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd
- Curb and Roy Orbison
composed the song "So Young" which Roy Orbison performed and
which Curb produced and the record became a Billboard chart single for
MGM Records
- Curb and Roy Orbison
composed the title song "So Young" for the film
"Zabriskie Point" which Roy Orbison performed and which Curb
produced -- released as a single by MGM Records
- Curb composed music for
Warner Bros. film "The Big Bounce" starring Leigh Taylor
Young/Ryan O'Neal (Curb wrote or co-wrote 13 songs for the film)
- Supervised music for
the MGM film titled "Tick, Tick, Tick" starring George
Kennedy - performed by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers -
"California Girl" was the only Billboard top 100 pop chart
by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers and "All That Keeps You
Going" hit the Billboard top 100 singles chart
- Curb merged his company
with MGM and became President of MGM Records and Vice-President of the
MGM parent company in charge of music publishing, records, and music
for MGM films
- Curb releases
"Venus" by Shocking Blue through distribution agreement with
Colossus, which goes to #1 on the Billboard chart
1970
- Two Mike Curb
Congregation albums hit the Billboard pop album chart (Come
Together and Sweet Gingerbread Man)
- Curb composed theme
from Clint Eastwood's "Kelly's Heroes" movie
Title song "Burning Bridges" from the movie became major hit
for Mike Curb Congregation Composed by Mike Curb/Lalo Schiffrin ( (top
40 Billboard Hot 100 chart - top 20 Billboard AC chart (*1 record of
the year in South Africa)
- Curb signed Eric Burden
and War and released their #1 record on Cashbox chart "Spill The
Wine" - Curb signed Bobby Bloom and "Montego Bay"
became a top 10 record on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
- Curb co-produced and
co-wrote Hank Williams, Jr.'s first #1 hit - "All For The Love Of
Sunshine" - duet with Mike Curb Congregation - started Curb's
relationship with country music in Nashville
- Curb signs Larry
Norman and releases his recording, "I Wish We'd All Been
Ready"
- Signed the Five
Man Electrical Band - top 3 record on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
- "Signs" Hank Williams, Jr. with Mike Curb Congregation -
top 5 on Billboard country singles chart with "Raining In My
Heart"
- Hank Williams, Jr.
with Mike Curb Congregation - top 5 on Billboard country singles chart
with "Raining In My Heart"
- Curb receives BMI
award for "Big In Vegas" (Buck Owens)
1971
- Curb signed The Osmond
Brothers - first #1 hit - "One Bad Apple" - 5 weeks @ #1 on
Billboard Hot 100 chart
- Osmonds LP hits
top 15 of Billboard pop chart (certified gold)
- Donny Osmond - The
Donny Osmond Album (certified gold) - "Go Away Little
Girl" - Billboard #1
- Curb signs Second
Chapter Of Acts and releases their first single, "Jesus Is"
- Curb co-wrote the theme
for motion picture "Ryan's Daughter" with Maurice Jarre and
Mack David
"It Was A Good Time" became Billboard top 25 AC chart hit
for Eydie Gorme
- Liza Minelli recorded
"It Was A Good Time" - song became a major part of her live
performance
Liza Minelli featured the song on her Emmy award-winning album Liza
With A Z and released the song as a single on Columbia Records
- Curb co-wrote the song
"Chilly Winds" for the movie "Pretty Maids All In A
Row" - recorded by the Osmond Brothers
- Curb signed country
artist Billy Walker who went on to have 15 Billboard chart records -
"Gone" duet w/Mike Curb Congregation - top 25 on the
Billboard country singles chart
- The Five Man Electrical
Band album Goodbyes and Butterflies hit the Billboard album
chart
- Top 10 Billboard
country chart single by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers -
"Rings"
- Curb signed Lou Rawls -
"Natural Man" hit Billboard Pop/R&B/AC charts - vocal
background -Mike Curb Congregation - won Grammy for R&B Single of
the Year
- Curb received BMI Pop songwriter award for "Burning Bridges"
The album Burning Bridges hit the Billboard top 100 album chart
- Curb received BMI
Country songwriter award for "All For The Love Of Sunshine"
1972
- Curb supervised music
and composed theme song for Frank Sinatra's motion picture "Dirty
Dingus McGee"
- Curb produced
"Candy Man" which went #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart as a duet with Sammy Davis, Jr. and the Mike Curb Congregation
- Curb produced two chart
LPs with Sammy Davis, Jr. - "Now" which went to #11 and
"Portrait of Sammy" which also hit the Billboard chart
- Curb, in conjunction
with Al Bell (President of Stax Records), created a new venture
between MGM and Stax and selected Isaac Hayes to do the music for
Shaft, which won the Academy Award for Best Song.
- Curb co-wrote and
produced the theme from the MGM film "No Blade of Grass" and
produced the single which was released by Roger Whitaker
- Kool Herc turned The
Incredible Bongo Bands Apache into an early hip-hop hit.
- Mike Curb Congregation
had a top 20 Billboard AC single "See You In September" and
two albums entitled Softly Whispering I Love You and The
Congregation Songs from the Glen Campbell Television Show
- Curb co-produced Donny
Osmond's biggest selling album Portrait Of Donny (#6 on the
Billboard pop chart) that included the smash hit "Puppy
Love" (produced by Mike Curb/Don Costa) (certified gold)
"Puppy Love" reached #1 on the British charts
- Curb co-produced Donny
Osmond's second biggest selling album Too Young (#11 on the
Billboard pop chart), My Best To You (certified gold), To You With Love (certified gold)
- The Osmonds - Homemade
(certified gold), Phase III (certified gold), The Osmonds Live (certified gold)
- Curb signed Mel Tillis
in Nashville - 20 chart records - #1 Billboard country chart single -
"I Ain't Never"
- Hank Williams, Jr. and
Mike Curb Congregation top 10 Billboard country chart single -
"Ain't That A Shame"
- Curb produced top 10
Billboard AC single "Wedding Song" - Petula Clark w/Mike
Curb Congregation
- Curb produced Petula
Clark's album - "Now"
- Steve & Eydie - top
10 single Billboard AC chart - "We Can Make It Together"
(produced by Curb)
- Curb produced three
Donny Osmond top 15 Billboard pop records "Too Young" (13),
"Why" (13), "Lonely Boy" (13)
- Curb signed New Seekers
- Billboard top 10 with "Pin Ball Wizard" - four Billboard
chart singles in U.S.
- Curb co-wrote and
produced a single by Roy Orbison which was the title song from the MGM
picture "Zig Zag"
- Curb signed Solomon Burke
who went on to have several chart singles
- Curb receives BMI
awards for "Here Comes Honey Again" (Sonny James) and
"Down By The Lazy River" (The Osmonds)
- [ 1972 Overall Billboard Producer of the Year - Mike Curb ]
- [
Co-Master of Ceremonies (with Dr. Billy Graham), Presidential
Inaugural festivities]
1973
- Curb signed 13-year old
Marie Osmond - Paper Roses went to #1 on Billboard country
chart - #5 on Billboard's pop chart - album went #50 on the Billboard
pop album chart - The record was produced by Sonny James for Curb
Productions. Curb Publishing published all of Sonny James' original
songs during his career.
- Curb produced
"Daisy A Day" by Jud Strunk - backed by Mike Curb
Congregation - top 15 on Billboard Hot 100 chart - album hit Billboard
pop album chart
- Curb signed Tony
Bennett who hit Billboard top LP chart w/album titled "Good
Things In Life" Produced single with Tony Bennett and the Mike
Curb Congregation - "Living Together Growing Together"
- Curb signed Kenny
Rogers and charted his first country solo single "Today I Started
Loving Her Again"
- Curb produced Sammy
Davis, Jr. "Legend In My Time" - top 30 Billboard AC
- Curb composed title
theme for MGM motion picture "The Last Run" with Mack David
and Jerry Goldsmith - recorded by Steve Lawrence
- Curb signed The Sylvers
who went on to have several chart singles
- Curb signed Eddy Arnold
and produced 4 Billboard chart singles (all 4 singles charted the same
year - 1973) 2 top 30 Billboard country chart records with the Mike
Curb Congregation doing background vocals - "So Many Ways"
and "Uh Oh I'm Falling In Love"
- #1 on British charts
with duet by Jimmy Osmond and Mike Curb Congregation "Long Haired
Lover From Liverpool"(#1 record of the entire year on the British
charts) (top 40 on Billboard pop singles chart in U.S.) Produced LP
which hit the Billboard pop charts entitled "Killer Joe"
- Curb produced Donny
Osmond's top 10 Billboard single "Twelfth Of Never" - #1
international hit
- Donny Osmond -
"Young Love" - #1 international hit
- Co-produced two top 30
Billboard albums - Donny Osmond - My Best To You and Alone
Together Too Young (certified gold)
- The Osmonds - Crazy
Horses (certified gold)
- Curb produced
"It's A Small World" by Mike Curb Congregation - top 10
Billboard AC chart
- Mike Curb Congregation
became the official Disney group and recorded an album of all the
Disney hits for Disney Records
- Mike Curb Congregation
recorded an album with Steve and Eydie - The World of Steve and
Eydie (4 songs co-written by Curb on the album)
- [Mike Curb
Congregation appears at The White House State Dinner at the invitation
of President Nixon and King Hussein of Jordan.]
1974
- Curb produced Donny and
Marie Osmond - "I'm Leaving It All Up To You" - #1 on
Billboard AC chart - top 5 on Billboard Hot 100 chart
- Curb produced
"Love Me For A Reason" by Osmond Brothers - top 10 Billboard
pop singles chart U.S. - #1 in U.K. Curb produced Love Me For A
Reason that was top 50 on the Billboard album chart
- Mike Curb Productions
(with Sonny James Productions) - "In My Little Corner Of The
World" by Marie Osmond - hit the Billboard pop album chart,
Billboard country album chart and Billboard country and pop singles
chart
- Produced Donny Osmond's
top 10 Billboard single - "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and the
Donny Osmond LP A Time For Us
- Donny & Marie -
"I'm Leavin' It All Up To You" - Billboard #1; "Morning
Side Of The Mountain" - Billboard #1
- Curb signed Jim
Stafford - 8 Billboard chart records including "Spiders and
Snakes" (produced by Phil Gernhard, who brought the record to
Curb) - #3 on Billboard singles chart Jim Stafford album also hit the
Billboard charts - including "My Girl Bill" (#12 on
Billboard pop singles chart and "The Wildwood Weed" - #7 on
Billboard pop singles chart)
- Curb signed Gloria
Gaynor - #1 Billboard record with "Never Can Say Goodbye"
(one of the first major disco hits)
- Curb-published song
"Swearin' To God" by Frankie Valli becomes one of the first
major disco hits
- Curb and Pat Boone sign
DeGarmo & Key
- Curb signed Neil Sedaka
- "Standing On The Inside" - top 10 pop single in U.K.
- Curb signed Johnny
Bristol - top 10 Billboard pop record "Hang On In There
Baby"
- Curb composed "If
I Could Only Go Back Again" for Andy Williams to sing in motion
picture Where The Red Fern Grows
- Curb produced Andy
Williams' album The Way We Were for Columbia
- Curb produced Sammy
Davis, Jr. and Mike Curb Congregation "Singing In The Rain"
- top 20 Billboard AC record
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
"That's Entertainment" Billboard chart single
- [Curb formed
Warner/Curb Records]
1975
- Curb co-wrote and
produced the song for the motion picture "Moonshine Wars"
with Roy Orbison "It Takes All Kinds Of People" was recorded
by Roy Orbison and The Mike Curb Congregation
- Mike Curb Productions
(Sonny James Productions) - Marie Osmond single and album entitled
"Who's Sorry Now" - top 40 - Billboard pop singles chart and
top 30 on Billboard country singles chart
- Curb produced #1
Billboard AC chart record by Donny and Marie Osmond "Morning Side
Of The Mountain" - top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
- Curb produced Donny and
Marie Billboard album chart LP - Make The World Go Away
I'm Leaving It All Up To You (certified gold)
- Curb produced "The
Proud One" by Osmond Brothers - #1 Billboard AC chart
- Curb produced the
Billboard chart album The Proud One
- Curb produced top 10
Billboard AC chart single "Volare" by Al Martino - record
also goes top 40 on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
- Curb signed Four
Seasons
First single - "Who Loves You" - #3 Billboard Hot 100
singles chart
Album Who Loves You hit Billboard pop album chart
Second single - "(December 1963) Oh What A Night" - #1 in
Billboard for 3 weeks and ultimately became the first record to spend
more than one year on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart (54 weeks)
- Curb produced Billboard
pop chart album entitled Donny by Donny Osmond and the single
"I Have A Dream"
- Curb produced and
composed the English lyrics to the Billboard chart recording
"Butterfly" by Eddy Arnold
- Curb co-produced an
album by Eddy Arnold, I Wish That I Had Loved You Better, with
the Mike Curb Congregation singing background vocals
Single "I Wish That I Had Loved You Better" - top 20
Billboard country chart
- Curb produced Sammy
Davis, Jr. "Chico And The Man" and "Song And Dance
Man" with Mike Curb Congregation - top 30 Billboard AC chart
- Curb signed T.G.
Sheppard - first two singles went to #1 in Billboard - "Devil In
The Bottle" and "Tryin To Beat The Morning Home"
- Curb co-produced
"Padre" by Judy Lynn - Billboard country chart
- Co-produced soundtrack
to "The Pom Pom Girls" for Twentieth Century Fox
- Curb produced Shirley
and Pat Boone's only chart record - "I'd Do It With You" -
Billboard country singles chart
- Curb's copyright
"Swearin' To God" by Frankie Valli won BMI award
- [Co-Chairman of the
Reagan Presidential Campaign in California]
- [Religious Heritage
of America - Business and Professional Leader of the Year]
1976
- Curb signed Bellamy
Brothers (produced by Phil Gernhard)
"Let Your Love Flow" went to #1 Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart - #2 Billboard AC chart
Let Your Love Flow album hit Billboard pop album chart
- T.G. Sheppard - 2 more
top 10 Billboard country singles titled "Motels and
Memories" and "Show Me A Man"
- Curb signed Larry Groce
- top 10 Billboard chart single "Junk Food Junkie"
- Curb produced duet with
Al Martino and The Mike Curb Congregation - "Sing My Love
Song" - top 25 Billboard AC chart
- Curb produced Donny
Osmond (Disco Train LP) - Billboard pop album chart
- Curb produced Donny
Osmond's "C'mon Marianne" - top 40 Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart
- Four Seasons - #1 in
U.K. with "Silver Star"
- "(December 1963)
Oh What A Night" - #1 U.K. and #1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts
- Curb produced
"Deep Purple" by Donny and Marie Osmond - top 15 Billboard
Hot 100 singles chart - top 10 Billboard AC chart
- Curb produced Donny and
Marie TV show LP - Billboard album chart
Donny & Marie Featuring Songs From Their TV Show (certified
gold)
- Curb produced top 10
Billboard AC single - The Osmond Brothers "I Can't Live A
Dream"
- Curb also produced
Osmonds' album I Can't Live A Dream - Billboard album chart
- Bobbie Gentry signed
with Curb Records and released her first single - "Steal
Away"
- Sammy Johns -"Peas
In A Pod" - #11 Billboard AC chart single
- Curb receives BMI award
for "Little Bit South Of Saskatoon" (Sonny James)
- [Co-Chairman,
California's President Ford Campaign]
- [Curb elected
National Committeeman representing the State of California]
1977
- Mike Curb Congregation
recorded album for Warner Bros.
- Curb released Shaun
Cassidy album - #3 on Billboard pop album chart (certified
platinum)
"Da Doo Ron Ron" - single went #1 on Billboard Hot 100 chart
Shaun Cassidy "That's Rock and Roll" - #3 Billboard Hot 100
chart
Shaun Cassidy - Born Late (certified platinum)
- Curb signed Debby Boone
- "You Light Up My Life" - #1 Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart - 10 weeks - #1 record for the entire decade of the 70s - won
Grammy Award and Academy Award
- Debby Boone's album - You
Light Up My Life - #6 on Billboard pop album chart - co-produced
by Curb (certified platinum)
- Curb's copyright
"You Light Up My Life" received ASCAP award
- T.G. Sheppard - first
Curb/Warner single - "Mister D.J." - top 20 Billboard
country chart single
- Hank Williams, Jr. -
"Mobile Boogy" Curb/Warner first Billboard country chart
single
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 3
Billboard country chart singles
- Jim Stafford -
Billboard pop chart single - "Turn Loose Of My Leg"
- Curb produced Donny and
Marie - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" - top 25
Billboard pop record - top 20 Billboard AC
- Curb produced Donny and
Marie - New Season LP - Billboard pop album chart
- Curb and Tony Scotti
participate in the signing of the rock group Foreigner to Atlantic
Records and receive a production participation for several albums.
- Hues Corporation signed
with Curb - Billboard Hot 100 - "I Caught Your Act"
- [California Museum
of Science and Industry's Museum Fellowship Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Business]
- [Curb selected to
serve on the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee
(youngest person ever selected to serve on the RNC Executive
Committee)]
1978
- Curb co-produced
"Candle In The Water" by Helen Reddy for the Walt Disney
motion picture Pete's Dragon
- Curb signed Exile - #1
on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart - "Kiss You All Over"
Exile album - #14 Billboard pop album chart
Exile - Mixed Emotions (certified gold)
- Donny & Marie
Osmond - Goin' Coconuts (certified gold)
New Season (certified gold)
- Shaun Cassidy - #7 on
Billboard Hot 100 singles chart - "Hey Deanie"
Shaun Cassidy - Under Wraps (certified platinum)
- Bellamy Brothers - top
20 on Billboard country singles chart - "Slippin Away"
- Susie Allanson - two
top 10 Billboard country chart singles
#2 Billboard country singles chart - "We Belong Together"
(#1 in Cashbox)
#7 Billboard country singles chart - "Maybe Baby"
- Debby Boone has 3 top
20 Billboard AC records " California ", "Baby I'm
Yours", "God Knows"
- Leif Garrett - Feel
The Need (certified gold)
- Curb supervised the
Lassie soundtrack (Disney) starring Jimmy Stewart and Mickey Rooney
featuring the Mike Curb Congregation and Debby Boone - ("When
You're Loved" - Billboard chart single)
- Gloria Gaynor I Will
Survive becomes the first #1 hit on Billboards Dance Chart
- Bill LaBounty has 3
chart records - 3 Billboard AC chart records and 1 Billboard Hot 100
chart single
- T.G. Sheppard has 3 top
10 Billboard country chart records - "When Can We Do This
Again", "Day Light", "Happy Together"
- T.G. Sheppard has first
Billboard chart album - T.G.
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 4
Billboard country chart records including "I Fought The Law"
- Curb produced Donny and
Marie Osmond - "Soul and Inspiration" - top 20 Billboard AC
chart - top 40 Billboard Hot 100 chart
- Frankie Valli - last
Billboard chart album - (Grease) Is The Word
- Curb receives ASCAP
award for "You Light Up My Life" (Debby Boone)
- [Curb
married Linda Dunphy]
- [1978-1982 Curb
served as Member of the State Land's Commission]
- [Voice of Patriots
- Man of the Year]
- [Curb elected
Lieutenant Governor of California]
1979
- Curb/Electra label is
started with 2 top 10 Billboard country singles by Susie Allanson -
"Words", "Two Steps Back"
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 2
top 5 Billboard country singles - "Family Tradition",
"Whiskey Bent"
- Debby Boone - 4
Billboard country chart singles - "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its
Own", "Break In A Brand New Heart", "See You In
September", "Everybody's Somebody's Fool"
- Bellamy Brothers #1
Billboard country chart - "If I Said You Had A Beautiful
Body" - top 5 Billboard country chart - "You Ain't Just
Whistlin' Dixie"
- Curb co-produced Steve
and Eydie w/Mike Curb Congregation - "Hallelujah" - top 50
Billboard AC chart
- Maureen McGovern - 3
records on Billboard Hot 100 chart and album hit Billboard pop album
chart 3 records on Billboard AC chart including "Different
Worlds" which went #1 Billboard AC chart - top 20 on Billboard
Hot 100 singles chart
#5 Billboard AC chart - "Can You Read My Mind"
- Jerry Naylor - 2
Billboard country records - "But For Love"
- Tommy Roe - 2 Billboard
country chart singles - "You'd Better Move On"
- Maureen McGovern -
"Different Worlds" - Billboard #1
- T.G. Sheppard - #1
Billboard country chart - "Last Cheaters Waltz"
Top 5 Billboard singles chart - "You Feel Good All Over"
- Bellamy Brothers top 10
Billboard album - The Two And Only
- Top 10 Billboard single
Stephanie Windslow - "Say You Love Me"
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 2
top 5 Billboard country albums - Whiskey Bent, Family
Tradition
- Lobo #1 Billboard AC
chart - "Where Were You When I Was Fallin' In Love"
- T.G. Sheppard - top 5
Billboard album chart - 3/4 Lonely
- [Megan Carole Curb
born June 12, 1979]
- [Curb received
San Fernando Valley Business and Professional Association's Free
Enterprise Award]
- [Curb appointed
by the Governor to Chair California's State Economic Development
Commission]
- [Member of the
Board of Regents for the University of California]
- [Curb became
acting Governor of California (Supreme Court decision - December 27,
1979)]
1980
- Bellamy Brothers - two
#1 Billboard country singles - "Sugar Daddy" and
"Dancin' Cowboys"
- Debby Boone - #1
Billboard country singles chart - "Are You On The Road To Loving
Me Again"
Top 20 Billboard country album chart - Love Has No Reason
- Pat Boone - last single
on Billboard chart - "Colorado Country Morning" - 65th
Billboard chart single
- Phil Everly - Billboard
country singles chart - "Dare To Dream Again"
- Four Seasons - last
single hits top 100 Billboard singles chart - "Spend The Night In
Love"
- Don Gibson -
"Sweet Sensuous Sensations" - Billboard country chart
singles
- Bobby Goldsboro - top
20 Billboard country - top 20 Billboard AC chart - "Goodbye
Marie"
- Maureen McGovern -
"We Can Have It All" - top 20 Billboard AC chart
- T.G. Sheppard - 3 #1
Billboard country singles - "Do You Want To Go To Heaven",
"I Feel Like Loving You Again", and I'll Be Comin' Back For
More" - top 20 Billboard country album Smooth Sailin'
- Frankie Valli - top #5
Billboard AC single - "Where Did We Go Wrong"
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 3
top 10 Billboard country records - "Women I Never Had",
"Kaw-Liga", "Old Habits"
Top 5 Billboard country album - Habits Old And New
- Stephanie Windslow -
top 20 Billboard country single and album - "Crying"
- Bellamy Brothers - top
10 Billboard country album - You Can Get Crazy
- [Dale Earnhardt
won first Nascar Winston Cup championship in Curb-sponsored Chevrolet]
- [Curb
appointed National Co-Chairman of Reagan Presidential Campaign]
- [Republican
National Convention Program Chairman]
- [Member of the
Board of Trustees for The California State University]
1981
- Don Gibson - "Love
Fires" - last Billboard chart record - 82nd
- Bellamy Brothers -
"Do You Love As Good As You Look" - #1 Billboard country
singles chart
Sons Of The Son - top 20 Billboard country album chart
- Debby Boone - 2
Billboard country chart singles - "Perfect Fool",
"It'll Be Him"
1 Billboard country chart album - Savin' It Up
- Burrito Brothers - 2
top 20 Billboard country singles - "Does She Wish She Was Single
Again", "She Belongs To Everyone But Me"
- Phil Everly - Billboard
country chart/Billboard AC chart - "Sweet Southern Love"
- Bobby Goldsboro - 2 top
20 Billboard country singles - "Alice Doesn't Love Here
Anymore", "Love Ain't Never Hurt Nobody"
- Lobo - top 20 AC
Billboard single - "Holding On For Dear Love"
- T.G. Sheppard - 3 #1
Billboard country singles - "I Loved Them Everyone" (top 40
Billboard pop chart), "Party Time" and "Only One
You"
Top 10 Billboard country album I Love 'Em All
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 3
#1 Billboard country singles - "Texas Woman", "Dixie On
My Mind", "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down"
Top 5 Billboard country album - Rowdy
Top 5 Billboard country album - Pressure's On
- Jim Stafford -
"Cow Patti" - Billboard country singles chart
- [Courtney
McLeod Curb born October 21, 1981 while Curb was acting Governor of
California]
- [Curb receives
California Republican Assembly Governor's Award]
- [Military
Order Of The World Wars - Patriot Citizen Of The Year]
- [President
Gerald R. Ford and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announce the
establishment of the Mike Curb Nachlah in Galilee]
- [International
Association of Lions Clubs - Medal of Distinction]
1982
- Bellamy Brothers - 2 #1
Billboard country chart singles - "For All The Wrong
Reasons" and "Redneck Girl"
Top 20 Billboard country album - When We Were Boys
Top 10 Billboard country album - Bellamy Brothers Greatest Hits
(certified Gold)
- Burrito Brothers - 4
Billboard chart records including "I'm Drinkin' Canada Dry"
- Bobby Goldsboro - 2
Billboard chart singles including "Lucy And The Stranger"
- Marie Osmond - 2
Billboard country chart singles - "Back To Believing Again"
- Osmond Brothers -
Billboard top country single - "I Think About Your Loving"
Billboard country chart album - Osmond Brothers
- T.G. Sheppard - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "Finally", "War Is
Hell"
Top 5 album - Finally
- Curb signs The Whites -
2 top 10 Billboard country chart singles - "You Put The Blue In
Me" and "Hanging Around"
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 3
top 10 Billboard country chart singles - "All My Rowdy Friends
Are Comin' Over Tonight", "A Country Boy Can Survive",
"Honky Tonkin" (#1)
High Note - top 5 Billboard country chart album
- [President of
the California State Senate - President's Gavel Award for Service as
President]
- [Curb elected
Chairman of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors]
- [Curb elected
as a Lifetime Member of Phi Kappa Phi by Cal Polytechnic University
commencement]
1983
- Bellamy Brothers - 2 #1
Billboard country record - "When I'm Away From You" and
"I Love Her Mind"
Top 20 Billboard country album - Strong Weakness
- Curb Records signs
Judds - top 20 Billboard country chart single - "Had A
Dream"
- Osmond Brothers - 2
Billboard country chart records including "Never Ending Song Of
Love"
- Real Life - "Send
Me An Angel" - top 30 single on Billboard pop singles chart
- Neil Sedaka - top 20
record on Billboard AC chart - "Your Precious Love" (with
Dara Sedaka)
- T.G. Sheppard &
Karen Brooks - #1 Billboard country singles chart "Faking
Love"
T.G. Sheppard Greatest Hits - top 5 Billboard country album
chart
- The Whites - 2 top 10
Billboard country singles - "Hanging Around", "I Wonder
Whose Holding My Baby Tonight"
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 4
top 10 Billboard country singles - "If Heaven Ain't A Lot Like
Dixie", "Gonna Go Huntin' Tonight", "Leave Them
Boys Alone", "Queen Of My Heart"
Top 10 Billboard country album - Strong Stuff
- Curb receives BMI award
for "Baby I Lied" (Deborah Allen)
- [California
College of Optometry - Doctor of Law]
- [Curb appointed
Chairman Republican National Finance Committee ( Washington , D.C. )
by President Ronald Reagan]
1984
- Bellamy Brothers - 2
top 10 Billboard country singles - "Forget About Me",
"World's Greatest Lover"
Top 25 Billboard country album - Restless
- Burrito Brothers - 2
Billboard country records including "My Kind Of Lady"
- Craig Dillingham -
"Have You Loved Your Woman Today" - Billboard country chart
single
- Released soundtrack to
Universal film "Gotcha", featuring Hubert Kah
Hubert Kah - top 10 Billboard dance chart single - "Machine
Gun"
- Anne Murray recorded
and released Curb's composition of "Gotcha"
- The Judds - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "Mama He's Crazy" and "Why
Not Me"
#1 Billboard country chart album - Why Not Me
The Judds win CMA Horizon Award and ACM Vocal Duet Award
"Mama He's Crazy" wins Grammy for Best Country Performance
by Duo or Group
- Marie Osmond -
Billboard chart record - "Whose Countin'"
- Osmond Brothers - top
40 Billboard country single - "If Every Man Had A Woman Like
You"
- Real Life - top 40
Billboard pop singles chart - "Catch Me I'm Fallin'"
Billboard pop chart album - Heartland
- Sawyer Brown - 1st
Billboard top 20 single - "Leona"
- Neil Sedaka - top 40
Billboard AC chart - "Rhythm Of The Rain"
- Clint Eastwood and T.G.
Sheppard - top 20 Billboard country single - "Make My Day"
from motion picture Sudden Impact starring Clint Eastwood
Also hit on Billboard pop singles chart
- T.G. Sheppard -
"Slow Burn" - #1 Billboard country singles chart,
"Somewhere Down The Line" - R&R #1
Slow Burn - #20 Billboard country album chart
- The Whites - 2 top 10
Billboard country singles - "Give Me Back That Old Familiar
Feeling", "Pins and Needles"
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 2
top 5 Billboard country singles - "Man Of Steel",
"Attitude Adjustment"
Attitude Adjustment - first #1 Billboard country album -
"Major Moves" - #1 for 7 weeks
- Curb receives BMI awards
for: "I Hurt For You" (Deborah Allen); "I'm Only In It
For The Love" (Deborah Allen); "I've Been Wrong Before"
(Deborah Allen); and "Let's Stop Talkin' About It" (Janie
Fricke)
- [Top 10 SCCA
Indy Pro (Ted Prappas) (winner at Laguna Seca)]
- [Richard Petty
won Daytona in Curb-owned car with President Ronald Reagan in
attendance (became the first Nascar driver to win 200 Winston Cup
victories) - also finished top 10 in Winston Cup 1984 standings in
Curb-owned car]
- [Grant High
School - Hall of Fame]
- [California
State Polytechnic Institute - Phi Kappa Phi]
1985
- Bellamy Brothers - #1
Billboard country single "I Need More Of You" 2
#2 Billboard country singles - "Old Hippie", "Lie To
You For Your Love"
Top 10 Billboard country album - Howard and David
- Billy Burnette - 2
Billboard country chart singles
- Exile - Billboard
country chart single - "Stay With Me"
- Jermaine Jackson and
Pia Zadora - from the picture Voyage of the Rock Aliens - Billboard
pop chart and R&B chart ("When The Rain Begins To Fall"
- platinum in Europe )
- The Judds - 3 #1
Billboard country chart singles - "Girls Night Out",
"Love Is Alive" and "Have Mercy"
#1 Billboard country album - Rockin' With The Rhythm
The Judds win CMA Vocal Group of the Year and ACM Top Vocal Duet
"Why Not Me" wins Grammy for Best Country Performance by Duo
or Group
Why Not Me (CMA Record of the Year) (certified gold)
- Marie Osmond - #1
Billboard country single - "There's Just No Stoppin' Your
Heart"
- Dan Seals and Marie
Osmond - #1 Billboard country single - "Meet Me In Montana "
- Marie Osmond - top 20
Billboard country album - There's Just No Stoppin' Your Heart
- Osmond Brothers - 2
Billboard country chart singles
- Curb releases
"Once Bitten" soundtrack starring Jim Carey and Lauren
Hutton, Samuel Goldwyn picture (7 Curb records in soundtrack album)
- Sawyer Brown - 2 top
Billboard country singles - "Step That Step" (first #1
Billboard country single), "Used To Blue" (#3 Billboard
country single)
#2 Billboard country album - Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown wins CMA Horizon Award
- T.G. Sheppard - 2 top
10 Billboard country singles - "One Owner Heart",
"You're Going Out Of My Mind"
Top 30 Billboard country album - One Owner Heart
- Gene Watson - top 10
Billboard country single - "Got No Reason Now For Going
Home"
- The Whites - 3
Billboard chart singles - 1 Billboard country chart album - Whole
New World
- Hank Williams, Jr. - #1
Billboard country single - "I'm For Love"
#1 Billboard country album - "Five O" - 10 weeks, Greatest
Hits Volume 2 - Billboard #1
"Pure Hank" - top 20 Billboard country single
- [Curb
appointed to Board of Directors of Hawaii 's largest corporation -
Castle & Cooke (Dole Food Company)]
- [Curb-owned
Indy car finished top 10 in Indianapolis 500 (Ed Pimm) also top 10 in
USAC Gold Crown Indy Car championship]
- [Top 10 IMSA
GTU Championship (Chris Cord/Jim Adams) - 8 victories, including
Daytona]
- [Curb-owned
car finished top 10 in Cart Indy Car National Championship (Tom Sneva)
]
- [Three
Curb cars qualified for Indianapolis 500 - Sneva, Pimm and
Bettenhausen]
1986
- Bellamy Brothers and
Forrester Sisters - #1 Billboard country single - "Too Much Is
Not Enough" - "Feelin' That Feelin'" - R&R #1
- Bellamy Brothers
Greatest Hits Volume II - #1 Billboard album chart (certified
Gold)
- Marie Osmond and Paul
Davis - #1 Billboard country single - "You're Still New To
Me" (CMA Duo Of The Year)
- Tish Hinojosa and Craig
Dillinghand - Billboard country chart single - "I'll Pull You
Through"
- The Judds - 3 #1
Billboard country singles - "Grandpa", "Rockin' With
The Rhythm" and "Cry Myself To Sleep"
"Grandpa" wins Grammy for Best Country Song and Best Country
Performance by Duo or Group
The Judds win ACM Top Vocal Duet
The Judds - Rockin' With The Rhythm, #1 Top Country Album Of
The Year (certified platinum)
The Judds - Why Not Me (certified platinum)
- The Kendalls - 3
Billboard country chart singles - chart album
- Lyle Lovett - 1st top 10
Billboard country single - "Cowboy Man"
1st top 15 Billboard country album - Lyle Lovett
- Ronnie McDowell - top 10
Billboard country single - "All Tied Up"
Top 40 Billboard country album - All Tied Up
- Marie Osmond -
"There's Just No Stoppin' Your Heart" - #1 Billboard country
chart
Marie Osmond - top 5 Billboard country single - "Read My
Lips"
Top 20 Billboard country album - I Only Wanted You
- Osmond Brothers - 4
Billboard country chart singles including "Baby When Your Heart
Breaks Down"
- Tommy Roe - 2 Billboard
country chart singles - "Radio Romance" and "Some Such
Foolishness"
- Sawyer Brown - top 10
Billboard country album - Out Goin' Cattin' - 3 top 15
Billboard country chart singles
- The Whites - 3 top 40
Billboard country chart singles
- T.G. Sheppard -
"Strong Heart" - Billboard #1
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 3
#1 Billboard country singles - "Ain't Misbehavin'",
"Mind Your Own Business" and "Country State Of
Mind"
#1 Billboard country album - Montana Cafe (4 weeks)
"All My Rowdy Friends" wins ACM
Video of the Year
Hank Williams, Jr. named ACM Entertainer of the Year
- Beat Farmers - Billboard
pop chart album - Van Go
- Mike Curb Productions
(Michael Lloyd, producer) "Mad About You" - #3 Billboard pop
singles chart by Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle - top 15 Billboard chart album
- Released soundtrack to
Tri-Star motion picture - "Rad" featuring John Farnam, Real
Life, Hubert Kah and the Beat Farmers
- Curb co-wrote the song
"Gotcha" recorded by Anne Murray, included on Anne Murray
Billboard chart LP Something To Talk About
- [Curb-sponsored
car won CRA sprint car championship (Brad Nofsinger)]
- [Curb-owned car
finished top 10 in Cart Indy car national championship (Tom Sneva) top
10 in Indy car points in Curb Indy car]
- [Dale Jarrett -
Top 5 NASCAR Busch championship (winner at Orange Speedway)]
- [Curb-owned car
won Pomona Winternationals (Tim Grose) (Top 10 NHRA point standings)]
- [Ron Bouchard -
Top 10 Daytona 500 and Talladega 500 in Curb-owned Winston Cup car]
- [Top 10 IMSA
GTS Championship (Dennis Aase/Rocky Moran) - 3 victories, including
Watkins Glen]
- [The Mike Curb
Boy Scout Center opens in Los Angeles]
- [American
Humanics - Theodore Roosevelt Friend of Youth Award]
1987
- Released
soundtrack to Teen Wolf II starring Jason Bateman (Atlantic Films),
featuring Beat Farmers, Real Life and Desert Rose Band
- Curb signs Moe Bandy -
top 10 Billboard country single - "Too Old To Die Young",
and top 10 Billboard country album You Haven't Heard The Last Of Me
- Beat Farmers -
Billboard pop chart album - Pursuit of Happiness
- Bellamy Brothers - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "Kids Of The Baby Boom" and
"Old Hippie"
Top 25 Billboard country album - Country Rap; "Crazy From
The Heart" - R&R #1
- Desert Rose Band - #1
Billboard country single - "One Step Forward"
Top 25 Billboard country album - The Desert Rose Band
- The Judds - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "I Know Where I'm Going" and
"Maybe Your Baby's Got The Blues"
#1 Billboard country album - Heartland (certified gold)
The Judds win CMA Vocal Group of the Year and ACM Top Vocal Duet
- Curb signs Lyle Lovett
- first top 10 Billboard country single - "Cowboy Man"
- Marie Osmond - 2 top 25
Billboard country singles
- Sawyer Brown - top 20
Billboard country album - Somewhere In The Night
- The Whites - top 40
Billboard country album - Ain't No Binds
- Hank Williams, Jr. - #1
Billboard country single and #1 Billboard country album - Born To
Boogie
#1 Billboard country album Hank Live
"My Name Is Bocephus" wins CMA Video of the Year
Hank Williams, Jr. wins CMA Entertainer of the Year and ACM
Entertainer of the Year
- Mike Curb Productions
(Michael Lloyd) produces platinum single "I've Had The Time Of My
Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes for the motion picture
"Dirty Dancin'"
Single goes to #1 on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and album chart -
wins Academy Award
- [Brad
Nofsinger wins CRA Sprint Car championship for second consecutive year
]
- [Curb honored
with Doctor of Law Degree from Pepperdine University]
- [Appointed by
President Reagan as a member of the Committee for Trade Negotiations]
- [Boy Scouts of
America - Silver Beaver Award]
1988
- Moe Bandy - top 10
Billboard country single - " Americana "
Top 30 Billboard country album - No Regrets
- Bellamy Brothers - 3
top 10 Billboard country singles - Billboard country chart album - Rebels
Without A Clue
- Desert Rose Band - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "He's Back And I'm Blue" and
"I Still Believe In You"
2 #2 Billboard country singles - "One Step Forward" and
"Summer Wind"
Top 30 Billboard country album - Running
- The Judds - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "Turn It Loose" and "Change
Of Heart" (Curb co-publisher)
#1 Billboard country album - Judds Greatest Hits (certified
gold)
The Judds wins CMA Duo of the Year and ACM Top Vocal Duet
The Judds - "Give A Little Love" wins Grammy for Best
Country Performance by Duo or Group
- Lyle Lovett - 3 Billboard
country chart top 20 singles, including "She's No Lady, She's My
Wife"
#12 Billboard country album - Pontiac
- Conway Twitty and
Ronnie McDowell - top 10 Billboard country single - "It's Only
Make Believe"
- Ronnie McDowell - top
50 Billboard country album - I'm Still Missing You
- Marie Osmond - top 30
Billboard country album - All In Love - 3 Billboard country
chart singles
- Sawyer Brown - top 40
Billboard country chart album - Wide Open - 3 Billboard country
chart singles including "My Baby's Gone" (Stacey, I just
took away the bullet before this.
- 3 Billboard country
chart singles including "My Baby's Gone"
- Curb co-produced
soundtrack Hemdale motion picture "Body Slam" starring Dirk
Benedict and Tanya Roberts
- Mike Curb Productions
(Michael Lloyd) produces "She's Like The Wind" by Patrick
Swayze - #3 Billboard pop singles chart
Mike Curb Productions (Michael Lloyd) soundtrack to "Dirty
Dancin'" and soundtrack entitled More Dirty Dancin' - #1 on
Billboard pop album chart - 18 weeks (1987 and 1988) - 8 Mike Curb
Productions tracks on Dirty Dancin ' album
- Trinity Lane - 3
Billboard country chart singles
- Hank Williams, Jr. - #1
Billboard country album - Wild Streak
2 top 10 Billboard country singles including "Young Country"
(Billboard #1)
Hank Williams, Jr. wins CMA Entertainer of the Year
Born To Boogie wins CMA Album of the Year
"Young Country" wins ACM Video of the Year
- Curb releases
soundtrack to Orion motion picture "Mac And Me" (title song
composed by Curb and Gaudio)
- [Brad Noffsinger
finishes top 10 in NASCAR Australia]
1989
- Moe Bandy - top 50
Billboard country album - Many Mansions
3 Billboard country chart singles
- Bellamy Brothers - 2
top 10 Billboard country singles and Billboard top 50 gold album - Greatest
Hits Vol. III
- Jan Browne - 1 top 20
Billboard country single - "You Ain't Down Home"
- Desert Rose Band - #1
Billboard country single - "I Still Believe In You"
- The Judds - 2 #1
Billboard country singles - "Young Love" and "Let Me
Tell You About Love"
The Judds win CMA Duo of the Year and ACM Top Vocal Duet
Christmas Time With The Judds (certified gold)
The Judds - Heartland (certified platinum)
The Judds - River Of Time (certified gold)
The Judds - Greatest Hits (certified platinum)
- Johnny Lee - 4
Billboard country chart singles
- Jerry Lee Lewis and
Ronnie McDowell - Billboard country single - "Never Too Old To
Rock 'N Roll"
- Lyle Lovett - top 10
Billboard country album and 3 Billboard country chart singles
including "Stand By Your Man"
- Ronnie McDowell - 4
Billboard country chart singles including " Sea of Heartbreak
"
- Tammy Wynette and Wayne
Newton - Billboard country chart single - "While The Feeling's
Gone"
Wayne Newton - first Billboard country chart album Coming Home
- Marie Osmond -
Billboard country album chart - Stepping Stone
3 Billboard country chart singles
- "The Race Is
On" is a major hit - starting the next major phase of their
career
Sawyer Brown - top 5 Billboard country album - The Boys Are Back
Top 5 Billboard country single - "The Race Is On"
- Hank Williams, Sr. and
Hank Williams, Jr. - "Tear In My Beer" - top 10 Billboard
country single - Grammy winner
"Tear In My Beer" wins CMA Vocal Event of the Year, CMA
Music Video of the Year, and ACM Video of the Year
- Hank Williams, Jr. - #1
Billboard country album - Greatest Hits Vol. III
- Real Life - "Send
Me An Angel" - top 30 Billboard Hot 100 single (2nd time) 35
total weeks
- Bobby Vinton - 3
Billboard country chart singles
- Released soundtrack to
Paramount motion picture "Major League", starring Tom
Beringer, Corbin Bernson and Charlie Sheen, featuring single
"Wild Thing" and also featuring and Lyle Lovett
- Curb's copyright of
"Change Of Heart" wins BMI Country music award
- [Appointed to
the World USO Board]
1990
- Bellamy Brothers - top
10 Billboard country single - "I Could Be Persuaded"
Billboard country album chart - Reality Check
- Jann Browne - top 20
Billboard country chart single - "Tell Me Why"
Top 50 Billboard country album - Tell Me Why
- Released soundtrack to
United Artists picture "All Dogs Go To Heaven", starring
Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise - Curb co-wrote title song recorded by
Irene Cara and Freddy Jackson
- Desert Rose Band - 2
top 10 Billboard country singles - "Story of Love"
Top 20 Billboard country chart album - Pages Of Life
- Jonathan Edwards - 2
Billboard country chart singles, including "Look What We Make
(When We Make Love)"
- Curb signs Merle
Haggard - hits Billboard country charts for fourth decade with
"When It Rains It Pours" Billboard country chart album - Blue
Jungle
- The Judds - top 5
Billboard country chart album - top 5 Billboard country chart single -
"Love Can Build A Bridge"
The Judds win CMA Duo of the Year and ACM Top Vocal Duet
- Marie Osmond -
Billboard country chart single - "Like A Hurricane"
Stepping Stone - Billboard country chart album
- Sawyer Brown - Greatest
Hits album goes gold (Billboard country charts)
3 top 40 Billboard country chart singles
- Hank Williams, Jr. -
top 5 Billboard country album - Lone Wolf
2 top 10 Billboard country chart singles
- Righteous Brothers -
"Unchained Melody" - Billboard #1, Billboard Catalog Album
Of The Year, top 20 Billboard pop single, platinum single and platinum
album
- [American
Israeli Fellowship Society - Master Builder Award - Neve Yerushalayim
College]
1991
- Righteous Brothers - Unchained
Melody - Best Of The Righteous (certified gold)
- Bill Anderson -
Billboard country chart single - "Deck Of Cards"
Billboard country album chart - Best Of Bill Anderson
- Desert Rose Band
Greatest Hits - Billboard country album chart
3 Billboard country chart singles
- Judds - top 10
Billboard country single - "One Hundred and Two"
Top 10 Billboard country album - Judds Greatest Hits Vol. II
(certified gold)
The Judds win CMA Duo of the Year
"Love Can Build A Bridge" wins Grammy for Best Country
Performance by Duo or Group
Love Can Build A Bridge (certified gold)
- Hal Ketchum - top 10
Billboard country chart album - Past The Point Of Rescue - top
50 on Billboard pop album chart
#1 airplay single for year - "Small Town Saturday Night"
(Radio and Records) - #2 Billboard country singles chart
- Curb and Lee Atwater
work together as co-executive producers to create an historic Memphis
music album featuring recordings by B.B. King, Billy Preston, Isaac
Hayes, Chuck Jackson, Sam Moore and Carla Thomas . The album was
entitled Red, Hot & Blue.
- KMC KRU - top 50
Billboard pop single "Devil Came Up To Michigan"
- Ronnie McDowell -
Billboard country chart album and Billboard country chart single -
"Unchained Melody"
- Sawyer Brown - top 20
Billboard country chart album - Buick
2 top 3 Billboard country singles - "The Walk", "Dirt
Road"
- T.G. Sheppard - his
42nd and final Billboard country chart single - "Born On A High
Wind"
- Ray Stevens -
"Working For The Japanese" - Billboard country singles chart
#1 With A Bullet (Billboard country album chart)
- Curb released
soundtrack to Paramount motion picture "Frankie and Johnny",
starring Al Pacino
- Curb receives BMI award
for "Love Can Build A Bridge" (The Judds)
- [Elected to Academy
of Country Music Board]
- [Chairman,
National Conference - Boys and Girls Clubs of America]
1992
- Wynonna
- album debuts #1 on Billboard country chart (certified 2x platinum)
#4 Billboard pop singles chart - (certified 4x platinum)
3 #1 Billboard country singles - "She Is His Only Need", "I
Saw The Light" and "No One Else On Earth"
- The Judds - Greatest
Hits (certified 2x platinum)
The Judds - Why Not Me (certified 2x platinum)
- Righteous
Brothers - Unchained Melody - Best Of The Righteous Brothers
(certified platinum)
- Hal Ketchum -
#2 Billboard country singles chart with "Past The Point Of
Rescue", #3 Billboard country singles chart "Sure Love"
Billboard pop album chart - Sure Love
Billboard country album chart - Sure Love
Past The Point Of Rescue (certified gold)
- Lyle Lovett -
Billboard pop chart album - Joshua, Judges, Ruth
Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett And His Large Band (certified gold)
- Delbert
McClinton - Billboard Grammy pop chart album - Never Been Rocked Enough
Single - "Every Time I Roll The Dice" - top 10 A&R chart
(Radio and Records)
- Sawyer Brown
- #1 Billboard country singles chart - "Some Girls Do"
2 Billboard country chart and 2 Billboard pop chart albums - Dirt Road,
Cafe On The Corner
3 top 5 Billboard country chart singles - "Dirt Road", "Cafe
On The Corner", "Some Girls Do"
- Ray Stevens -
Billboard country singles chart - "Power Tools"
- Hank
Williams, Jr. and Hank Williams, Sr. - Billboard country chart album - The
Best of Hank And Hank
- Hank
Williams, Jr. - top 10 Billboard country album - Maverick
- Released
Paramount soundtrack All I Want For Christmas
- Curb receives
ASCAP awards for "Is There Life Out There" (Reba McEntire) and
"Only The Wind" (Billy Dean)
- Curb receives
BMI awards for "Hurt Me Bad In A Real Good Way" (Patty Loveless);
"Cadillac Ranch" (Chris LeDoux); and "Watch Me" (Lorrie
Morgan)
- [Mike Curb and
Curb Records home office moved to Nashville]
- [American
Heart Association Curb Golf Classic]
1993
- Boy Howdy - top 15
Billboard country single - "A Cowboy's Born With A Broken
Heart"
- Ray Stevens - #1
Billboard retail video for entire year of 1993 - "Comedy Video
Classics" (#1 Billboard Video Of The Year)
- Wynonna - Tell Me
Why - #1 Billboard country album chart - top 5 Billboard pop chart
album (certified platinum)
Wynonna wins ACM Top Female Vocalist
3 top 5 Billboard country singles - "Tell Me Why", "My
Strongest Weakness", "Only Love"
Wynonna (certified 3x platinum)
Wynonna - "I Saw The Light" - #1 Top Country Single Of The
Year
Wynonna - Billboard Top Country Artist
- The Judds - Christmas
Time With The Judds (certified platinum)
Love Can Build A Bridge (certified platinum)
Wynonna & Naomi (certified gold)
- Lyle Lovett - Joshua
Judges Ruth (certified gold)
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac (certified gold)
- Hal Ketchum - 2 top 10
Billboard country singles - "Hearts Are Gonna Roll" (#2
Billboard country singles chart), "Mama Knows The Highway"
- Sawyer Brown - top 15
Billboard country chart album - Outskirts Of Town
3 top 5 Billboard country chart singles - "Trouble On The
Line", "The Boys And Me"
"Thank God For You" - #1 Billboard country chart single;
"All These Years" (R&R #1)
The Dirt Road (certified gold)
- Hank Williams, Jr. and
Hank Williams, Sr. - hit Billboard pop album chart with Hank and Hank
- Hank Williams, Jr. -
top 25 Billboard country album chart - Out Of Left Field
- Curb copyright -
"A Cowboy's Born With A Broken Heart" wins BMI and ASCAP
awards
- Curb receives ASCAP
award for "Jealous Bone" (Patty Loveless)
- Curb receives BMI
awards for: "Billy The Kid" (Billy Dean); "Old Flames
Have New Flames" (Mark Chestnut); "Trying To Hide A Fire In
The Dark" (Billy Dean); "Wild Man" (Ricky Van Shelton);
and "Woman Loves" (Steve Wariner)
- [Curb elected
to the Country Music Foundation (Hall of Fame) Board]
1994
- Curb signs Boy Howdy
featuring Jeffrey Steele - top 20 Billboard country chart album -
"She Give Anything"
2 top 5 Billboard country chart singles - "She'd Give
Anything" and "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore"
"She'd Give Anything" wins ASCAP and BMI country awards - #1
CMT video chart
Hot 100 Re-enters charts - 54 week chart run - the
longest running record in history of record business
- Merle Haggard - hits
Billboard country album chart - Merle Haggard 1994
- Wynonna - 3 top 10
Billboard country chart singles - "Is It Over Yet",
"Rock Bottom", "Girls With Guitars"
- Hal Ketchum - Billboard
country chart album - Every Little Word
3 top 25 Billboard country chart singles
- Lyle Lovett - top 30
Billboard pop album - I Love Everybody
- Tim McGraw - #1 Billboard
country singles chart "Not A Moment Too Soon"
#1 Billboard country album chart - Not A Moment Too Soon (29
weeks) (certified 3x platinum) (#1 Billboard Top Country Album Of The
Year)
#1 Billboard pop album chart - Not A Moment Too Soon (2 weeks)
"Indian Outlaw " - top 10 Billboard country chart single
"Indian Outlaw" - top 20 Billboard pop chart single
"Down On The Farm" - #2 Billboard country chart single
"Don't Take The Girl" - #1 on Billboard country singles
chart - top 20 Billboard pop chart single
Not A Moment Too Soon wins ACM Album of the Year award
- Sawyer Brown - top 5
Billboard country chart single - "Hard To Say"
Outskirts Of Town (certified gold)
- Ray Stevens - #1
Billboard video chart with the video album entitled Ray Stevens
Live
- Curb receives ASCAP
award for "I'd Give Anything" (Gerald Levert)
- Curb receives BMI
awards for: "Addicted To A Dollar" (Doug Stone); "I'd
Give Anything" (Gerald Levert); "Love A L:ittle
Stronger" (Diamond Rio); "Somebody Else's Moon" (Colin
Raye); and "You And Only You" (John Berry)
- [Curb
appointed to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital Board of Directors]
1995
- Boy Howdy - Billboard
country chart album - Born That Way
3 Billboard country chart singles
- Junior Brown -
Billboard country chart album - Junior High
Billboard country chart single - "Highway Patrol"
- Jeff Carson - top 25
Billboard country chart album - #1 single Billboard country singles
chart - "Not On Your Love"
- Fun Factory - 40
consecutive weeks on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with two singles
- "Close To You" and " I Wanna B With U"
- The Judds Number One
Hits - top 40 Billboard country chart
- Wynonna - Wynonna
(certified 4x platinum)
- Hal Ketchum - top 10
Billboard country chart single - "Stay Forever"
- Tim McGraw - 2 #1
Billboard country chart singles - "Not A Moment Too Soon",
"I Like It I Love It" - #25 Billboard pop chart single
All I Want debuts #1 Billboard country album chart - top 5
Billboard pop album chart (certified 2x platinum)
"I Like It I Love It" - #1 Billboard single of the entire
year; "Can't Be Really Gone" - R&R #1
Not A Moment Too Soon (certified 4x platinum)
- Perfect Stranger - top
5 Billboard country chart single - "You Have The Right To Remain
Silent"
Top 10 Billboard country chart album
#1 Billboard Heatseekers album chart
- Sawyer Brown - 2
top 5 Billboard country chart singles - "This Time" and
"I Don't Believe In Goodbye"
- Top 5 Billboard country
chart album - Sawyer Brown's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 (certified
gold)
CMT #1 Vocal Group of the Year
- Hank Williams, Jr. -
top 15 Billboard country chart album - "Hog Wild"
- Whiteheart - #1 single
on CCM chart - "Even The Hardest Heart"
- Michael English -
"Your Love Amazes Me" - cross-over hit - top 5 R&R AC
chart and top 10 Billboard AC Chart
- Jonathan Pierce - #1
single on CCM chart - "One Love"
- Released soundtrack to
Disney film "Gordy", featuring "Pig Power" by Tag
Team
- Curb copyright
"Your Love Amazes Me" wins BMI Country Music Award
- Curb copyright
"They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore" (Boy Howdy) wins
ASCAP and BMI Country Music Awards
- Curb copyright
"I'd Give Anything" recorded by Gerald Lavert wins ASCAP and
BMI Pop Music Awards
- Curb co-copyright
"Wink" wins BMI Song of the Year Award
- "Ray Stevens
Live" - #1 Billboard Video Chart
- Curb receives ASCAP
awards for "She'd Give Anything" (Boy Howdy) and "They
Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore" (Boy Howdy)
- Curb receives BMI
awards for: "Hangin' In" (Tanya Tucker); "More
Love" (Doug Stone); "She'd Give Anything" (Boy Howdy);
"They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore" (Boy Howdy);
"Walking Away A Winner" (Kathy Mattea); "Wink"
(Neal McCoy); and "Your Love Amazes Me" (John Berry -
Michael English)
- [Courtney Curb
becomes State of Tennessee Equestrian Reserve Champion]
- [November
3, 1995 - Belmont University's Mike Curb Music Business Program is
dedicated]
1996
- Junior Brown - "My
Wife Thinks You're Dead" - Billboard country chart single; #1
Gavin album chart; CMA Video of the Year - Billboard country album
chart - Semi-Crazy
"My Wife Thinks You're Dead" - #1 TNN video chart
- Jeff Carson - "The
Car" - top 5 Billboard country single
"Holding On To Something" - top 10 Billboard country single
"The Car" - ACM Video of the year
- Michael English -
"Your Love Amazes Me" - top 10 Billboard AC chart (#5
R&R AC chart)
- Wynonna - "To Be
Loved By You" - #1 Billboard country chart single
Revelations - Top 10 Billboard pop album
Revelations - #2 Billboard country album chart (certified
platinum)
- Jonathan Pierce -
"Healing Hands" - #1 single on CCM chart
- Whiteheart -
"Inside" - #1 single on CCM chart
- David Kersh -
"Goodnight Sweetheart" - Billboard Top 10 country chart
single - Top 5 R&R - #1 most consecutive weeks for entire year;
song used in Southwest Airlines commercial
- Hal Ketchum - The
Hits - Billboard country album chart
- Lyle Lovett - Road
To Ensenada - debuts top 5 Billboard country album chart - top 30
Billboard pop album chart - nominated for Grammy Country Album of the
Year
"Don't Touch My Hat" and "Private Conversation" -
2 Billboard chart singles
- Tim McGraw - four top 5
Billboard country chart singles - "Can't Be Really Gone",
"All I Want Is A Life", "She Never Lets It Go To Her
Heart" (#1 Billboard country chart single); "Maybe We Should
Just Sleep On It"
- Jo Dee Messina - Jo
Dee Messina - top 25 Billboard country chart album
"Heads Carolina Tails California" - #2 Billboard country
chart single - #1 Gavin chart - #1 CMT video chart
"You're Not In Kansas Anymore" - Top 10 Billboard country
chart single
- Sawyer Brown -
"Treat Her Right" - top 3 Billboard country chart single -
#1 on R&R singles chart
This Thing Called Wantin' And Havin' It All - Top 10 Billboard
country album
- Curb copyright
"Better Things To Do" wins BMI Award
- Curb copyright
"Thinkin' About You" wins BMI Award
- Smokin' Armadillos - Smokin'
Armadillos - top 40 Billboard country chart album
- Tony Toliver -
"Bettin' Forever On You" - Billboard country singles chart
- Burnin' Daylight -
("Love Worth Fightin' For" - 18 bulleted weeks on Billboard
country chart
- Hank Williams, Jr. -
top 40 Billboard country album - Wham Bam Sam
- Three Generations of
Hank - Hank Williams, Sr., Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank Williams,
III (introduction of Hank Williams, III) - top 30 Billboard country
chart album
- Curb receives BMI
awards for: "Better Things To Do" (Terri Clark); "Don't
Stop" (Wade Hayes); "I Didn't Know My Own Strength"
(Lorrie Morgan); "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" (Ricochet);
"That Ain't My Truck" (Rhett Akins); "Thinkin' About
You" (Trisha Yearwood); and "This Is Me" (Randy Travis)
- Curb signs and
releases first recordings by LeAnn Rimes
- #1 debut
Billboard Country Album chart - "Blue"
- highest debut by
female country artist in history of Billboard and SoundScan charts -
28 weeks at #1
- #3 Billboard Pop
Album Chart
- Billboard #1 Top
Single Sales Artist Of The Year
- "Blue"
- #1 Country
Single Of The Year - Billboard and SoundScan
- Top 10
Billboard Country Singles Chart
- #26 on
Billboard pop Singles chart
- #1 Top Country
Single Sales Record Of The Year
- #1 Billboard
Video Of The Year
- AMA New Country
Artist Of The Year
- "One Way
Ticket" - #1 on Billboard Singles Chart
- Curb Records - #1
Billboard label of year in all 3 singles categories - airplay, sales,
and distribution
- [Curb appointed
by Governor Don Sundquist to the Tennessee Economic Growth Board]
- [Elected to
CMA Board]
1997
- Curb copyright
"Friends" - #1 R&R
- LeAnn Rimes Blue
(certified 5x platinum)
LeAnn Rimes Unchained Melody album debuts #1 in Billboard -
debuts #1 in Billboard Pop 200 chart (first time a country female has
ever had a #1 album on the Billboard Pop chart) (certified platinum) -
this gives LeAnn the #1 and #2 chart albums
LeAnn Rimes receives Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female
Country Vocal Performance
LeAnn Rimes wins ACM Award for Best Female Vocalist and CMA Horizon Award
LeAnn Rimes is the #1 country artist on Billboard (CMA issue) for the
year of 1997
Blue by LeAnn Rimes is the #1 album on Billboard (CMA issue)
for the year of 1997 - "Blue" single (certified gold)
The Early Years (certified 2x platinum)
- Curb Records and LeAnn
Rimes win ACM Award for Single Record of the Year
- Lyle Lovett's Road to
Ensenada receives Grammy for Best Country Album
- Wynonna - Wynonna
(certified 5x platinum)
- David Kersh's
"Another You" - #1 on Gavin Go Chart
- Sawyer Brown album Six
Days On The Road debuts top 10 in Billboard
Sawyer Brown wins ACM Award for Best Country Vocal Group
- Tim McGraw (with Faith
Hill) - #1 on Billboard country chart with "It's Your Love"
and remains #1 for 6 weeks (CMA Musical Event Of The Year)
"It's Your Love" was also the highest debuting country
record ever on the Billboard Pop Top 100 chart, debuting at #36 - #1
single on Billboard (CMA issue) for the year of 1997 (certified
platinum)
- Everywhere debuts
at #1 on Billboard album chart and remains #1 for 11 weeks (certified
2x platinum)
Not A Moment Too Soon (certified 5x platinum)
- "How Do I
Live" by LeAnn Rimes (produced by Wilbur Rimes, Chuck Howard, and
Mike Curb) - hits #2 on Billboard Hot 100 chart (all-time Billboard
record for country/pop cross-over record) - #1 on R&R for five consecutive
weeks - #1 on Billboard AC chart for ten consecutive weeks - #1 on
Billboard country sales chart for 1997
"How Do I Live" became Billboard's (SoundScan) all-time
biggest Top Pop cross-over from country #1 Country sales record for
1997 (certified platinum)
- Curb Records is #1
record label according to Sounds can (Billboard) for the first six
months of 1997
- September 26, 1997
Billboard - LeAnn Rimes becomes the first artist in history to debut
an album (You Light Up My Life) at #1 on the Pop Album chart,
#1 on the Country Album chart, and #1 on the Contemporary Christian
Album chart (certified 3x platinum)
- October - Tim McGraw's
single "Everywhere" goes #1 on the R&R and Billboard
singles charts
- Curb receives ASCAP
award for "Healing Hands" (Jonathan Pierce)
- Curb receives BMI awards
for "Holding Onto Something" (Jeff Carson); "It's What
I Do" (Billy Dean); "Long As I Live" (John Michael
Montgomery); "Meant To Be" (Sammy Kershaw); "She Never
Lets It Go To Her Heart" (Tim McGraw); "That Girl's Been Spying
On Me" (Billy Dean); "The Car" (Jeff Carson);
"When Boy Meets Girl" (Terri Clark); and "Who Needs You
Baby" (Clay Walker)
- October - SoundScan
confirms Curb Records is the #1 country album label for the first
three quarters of 1997 and the #1 single label for the first three
quarters 1997
- December - RIAA names
LeAnn Rimes the #1 selling act in the industry
- December 27, 1997
Billboard - LeAnn Rimes is the #1 pop artist, #1 top 200 album artist,
#1 country singles sales artist, #1 country artist, #1 country female
artist, has #1 country singles sales for "How Do I Live,"
and has the #1 country album
- December 27, 1997
Billboard - Tim McGraw - "It's Your Love" - #1 Hot Country
Singles & Tracks single of the year, #1 R&R single of the
year, #1 six weeks Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Everywhere
- #1 Billboard Country album chart for 11 weeks
- December 27, 1997
Billboard - Curb Records wins 4 major awards: #1 Top Country Album
Imprint, #1 Top Country Album Label, #1 Top Country Singles Sales
Imprint, and #1 Top Country Singles Sales Label
- [February 23,
1997 - Harpeth Hall High School's Curb Family Music Center is
dedicated]
- [Curb makes the
first major contribution for the relocation of The Country Music Hall
of Fame]
- [Megan Carole
Curb and Courtney Curb receive special academic honors]
- [May 26, 1997 - Megan Carole Curb graduates from Harpeth Hall High School]
- [June 1997 - Megan Carole Curb accepted to
Vanderbilt University]
1998
- Wynonna "When Love
Starts Talkin'" - #1 on the CMT Video chart - The Other Side
album (certified gold)
- Lyle Lovett - The
Road To Ensenada (certified gold); "Step Inside This
House" (certified gold) (#1 Gavin)
- Tim McGraw's "Just
To See You Smile" - 6 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country
Singles chart - #1 R&R chart
Everywhere (certified 3x platinum); "Where The Green Grass
Grows" - Billboard #1
- LeAnn Rimes' "You
Light Up My Life" reaches 33rd consecutive week at #1 on the
Billboard Contemporary Christian chart
- LeAnn Rimes' "How
Do I Live" - 32 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country Singles
Sales chart, making it the longest running #1 record on any Billboard
chart in the history of Billboard (certified 3x platinum)
"How Do I Live" - Billboard Hot 100 (32 weeks in top 10)
which broke the record of 1943 "Paper Doll" by The Mills
Brothers (30 weeks)
"How Do I Live" becomes the longest running record in the
history of the Billboard chart (69 weeks)
"How Do I Live" - Billboard AC chart - #1 (11 weeks) - top
10 (36 weeks) - only country single ever to reach #1 on Billboard
dance chart - longest #1 record on any chart in the history of
Billboard
You Light Up My Life - longest running #1 album on Billboard
contemporary Christian chart (31 weeks - breaking record previously
set by Amy Grant) - only album in history to debut #1 on Billboard pop
top 200 chart, country album chart, and contemporary Christian chart
(certified 4x platinum)
Sittin' On Top Of The World (certified platinum)
- Ray Stevens - All-Time
Greatest Comic Hits album (certified gold)
- Bellamy Brothers - Greatest
Hits, Volume 1 (certified platinum)
- Junior Brown -
"Long Walk Back" (#1 Gavin)
- Jonathan Pierce -
"I Believe In Christ" - R&R #1, CCM #1
- Jo Dee Messina -
"Bye Bye" #1 R&R (2 weeks) - #1 Billboard country
singles chart (2 weeks)
"I'm Alright" #1 R&R, #1 Billboard (3 weeks)
I'm Alright (certified gold)
- David Kersh - "If I
Never Stop Loving You" #1 Gavin - #1 CMT video
- Tim McGraw (with Faith
Hill) - "It's Your Love" wins ACM video of the year; ACM
song of the year, ACM single of the year, ACM vocal event of the year
Everywhere - CMA Album of the Year - "One Of These
Days" (R&R #1)
- Curb receives BMI awards
for "Friends" (John Michael Montgomery); "Girl's Gotta
Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do)" (Mindy McCready); and "Sittin'
On Go" (Bryan White)
- Curb receives SESAC
award for "Commitment" (LeAnn Rimes)
- Curb Records wins 4
major Billboard awards
- #1 Top Country
Imprint Of The Year (albums and singles combined)
- #1 Top
Contemporary Christian Imprint Of The Year (albums and singles
combined)
- #1 Top Country
Singles Sales Label and Imprint Of The Year
- #1 Top Singles
and Tracks Record Of The Year - "Just To See You Smile" by
Tim McGraw
- #2 Top Singles
and Tracks Record Of The Year - "Bye Bye" by
Jo Dee Messina
- #4 Top Singles
and Tracks Record Of The Year - "I'm Alright" by
Jo Dee Messina
- #5 Top Singles
and Tracks Record Of The Year - "There's Your Trouble" by
the Dixie Chicks (published by Curb/Magnatone)
- [June 9, 1998 -
Curb honored as Father of the Year by The Father's Day Council of Los
Angeles]
- [Curb Classroom
and Library at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital]
- [Music Row
Marketing Achievement Award - "How Do I Live"]
- [Billboard
Award for co-producing longest running record of the century -
"How Do I Live"]
- [Country Label
of the Year - American Songwriter Magazine]
1999
- LeAnn Rimes -
"Written In The Stars" duet with Elton John - #1 R&R, #1
AC on Curb/Rocket label
Blue (certified 6x platinum)
LeAnn Rimes (certified gold); "Big Deal" - Billboard
#1
- Sawyer Brown -
"Drive Me Wild" top 5 R&R, #1 CMT Video chart
- Jo Dee Messina -
"Stand Beside Me" #1 Billboard, #1 R&R - first female to
ever have 3 consecutive multi-week #1's
ACM Best New Female Artist
I'm Alright (certified platinum)
- Tim McGraw - "For
A Little While" #1 Billboard Singles Sales chart, #1 Gavin
"Please Remember Me" #1 Billboard, #1 R&R, #1 Gavin
" A Place In The Sun" debuted #1 on the Billboard Pop and
Country charts"Something Like That" - Billboard #1
ACM Male Artist of the Year
Billboard #1 Hot Singles and Tracks Artist and Top Male Artist
- Curb Records receives
R&R Industry Achievement Award - 1999 Country Label Of The Year -
Gold
- Curb Records -
Billboard #1 Top Country Single Sales Label And Imprint Of The Year;
#2 overall Country Label and Imprint Of The Year
-
Tim McGraw wins CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
A Place In The Sun wins CMA Album Of The Year (certified 2x platinum)
- Jo Dee Messina wins CMA
Horizon award
- Hank Williams III -
"Rising Outlaw" - Gavin #1
- Lyle Lovett -
"Live In Texas" - Gavin #1
- Curb receives BMI
awards for "It Must Be Love" (Ty Herndon) and "There's
Your Trouble" (Dixie Chicks)
- Curb receives SESAC
awards for "Commitment" (LeAnn Rimes) and "For A Little
While" (Tim McGraw)
- [April 1, 1999
- "Curb Records - The Celebration" airs on The Nashville
Network (TNN)]
- [May 31, 1999 - Courtney Curb graduates
cum laude from Harpeth Hall High School]
- [May 1999 - Courtney Curb accepted to
Vanderbilt University]
- [May 1999 - Megan Carole Curb makes Dean's List at Vanderbilt University]
- [Brad
Noffsinger - winner of final USAC Silver Crown race of the century at
Memphis Raceway in Curb/Agajanian car]
- [November 3,
1999 - Curb Records receives The Greater Nashville 100 Leadership
award and is honored as one of the top 10 private companies in
Nashville]
- [WB Radio
Music Awards Country Label Of The Year]
- [The Mike Curb
Family Children's Theatre at the Nashville Public Library]
- [Curb Records
and March of Dimes A.I.R. Awards]
2000
- Tim McGraw - "My
Best Friend" #1 BB and R&R
Everywhere (certified 4x platinum)
A Place In The Sun (certified 3x platinum)
Greatest Hits (certified platinum) Billboard #1
- Jo Dee Messina - I'm
Alright #1 BB Country Catalog Chart (certified 2x platinum)
"Because You Love Me" - #1 CMT
- LeAnn Rimes - "Big
Deal" - #1 for 11 weeks on the Billboard Country Single Sales
Chart
LeAnn Rimes (certified platinum)
LeAnn Rimes - "I Need You" - #1 Billboard Country Single
Sales Chart, #1 CMT
- Jo Dee Messina -
"That's The Way" - #1 BB, R&R, Gavin and CMT
Jo Dee Messina - Burn - #1 Billboard Country Album Chart, #1
Billboard Internet Chart (certified gold)
- Selah receives Dove
Award for Inspirational Album of the Year
- Sawyer Brown -
"800 Pound Jesus" - #1 Power Source Christian Chart
"800 Pound Jesus" - CCMA Song of the Year and Video of the
Year
- Jeff Carson - CCMA
Mainstream Artist of the Year
"Scars And All" - #1 Christian Country Music Association
Chart
- Coyote Ugly
Soundtrack - #1 Billboard Country Album Chart, #1 Billboard Internet
Chart (certified platinum)
- Tim McGraw wins CMA
Male Vocalist of the Year
Billboard #1 Hot Singles and Tracks Artist and Top Male Artist
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw - "Let's Make Love" - #1 CMT, #1
Power Source Mainstream Chart
- LeAnn Rimes -
"Can't Fight The Moonlight"/"But I Do Love You" -
#1 Billboard Country Singles Sales Chart, #1 British Box Chart, #1
Official UK Singles Chart, #1 Official Irish Singles Chart, #1
Official Netherlands Singles Chart
- Curb Records -
Billboard #2 overall Country Label and Imprint Of The Year, #2 Country
Singles and Tracks Label and Imprint Of The Year, #2 Single Sales
Imprint Of The Year
- Curb receives ASCAP
award for "A Night To Remember" (Joe Diffie)
- Curb receives SESAC
award for "For A Little While" (Tim McGraw)
- [Brad
Noffsinger - Top 5 USAC Silver Crown Championship]
- [Curb
Conservatory dedicated at the Country Music Hall of Fame]
- [Belmont
University - Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree]
- [2000-01 -
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital - Chairman, Board of Directors]
2001
- Tim McGraw - Greatest
Hits - #1 Billboard Country Album Chart
"My Next Thirty Years" - #1 BB Country Music Chart (5
weeks), #1 R&R Country Music Chart (5 weeks)
- LeAnn Rimes - Can't
Fight The Moonlight"/"But I Do Love You" - #1 Billboard
Country Single Sales Chart, #1 British Box Chart, #1 Official UK
Singles Chart, #1 Official Irish Singles Chart - #1 Official Swedish
Singles Chart, Billboard #1, Top Country Singles Sales Record Of The
Year
- LeAnn Rimes - Billboard
#1 Top Country Singles Sales Artist Of The Year
- Coyote Ugly soundtrack
- #1 Australia (certified platinum)
I Need You (certified gold)
- Selah - Press On
- #1 Christian Country Music Association Chart, #1 SoundScan
Inspirational Chart
- Tim McGraw wins CMA Entertainer Of The Year - "Grown
Men Don't Cry" - #1 Billboard and R&R, "Angry All The
Time" - #1 Billboard Country Chart, Set This Circus Down -
#1 Billboard Country Album Chart (certified platinum)
Greatest Hits - Billboard #1 Top Country Album Of The Year
(certified 2x platinum)
Tim McGraw - Billboard Top Country Artist overall, Top Country Male Artist,
Top Country Album Artist
- Jim Witter - "Wings
Of A Dove" - #1 Christian Country Music Association Chart
- 4 Him (Word/Curb) -
"Psalm 112" - R&R #1
- Point of Grace
(Word/Curb) - "Praise Forevermore" - R&R #1
- Jeff Carson - "Real
Life" - #1 Christian Country Music Association Chart
- Lee Greenwood -
"God Bless The USA" - #1 Christian Country Music Association
Chart (3 weeks), #1 Country SoundScan Chart (10 weeks)
- Curb receives ASCAP
awards for "Kiss This" (Aaron Tippin) and "I Need
You" (LeAnn Rimes)
- Curb receives BMI awards
for "Good Day To Run" (Darryl Worley); "That's The Kind
Of Mood I'm In" (Patty Loveless) and "One More Day"
(Diamond Rio)
- Curb Records
- Billboard #1 Top
Country Album Label and Imprint Of The Year
- Billboard #1 Top
Country Singles Sales Imprint Of The Year
- [Curb Records -
Billboard Country Label Of The Year]
- [Curb Records -
R&R Gold Label Of The Year]
- [Billy Boat -
Top 5 Indy Racing League Championship, Top 10 Indianapolis 500 - Pole
Winner/Track Record at Nashville]
- [Junior
Achievement - National Business Hall of Fame]
- [Curb Event
Center - Belmont University (groundbreaking)]
2002
- Lee Greenwood -
"God Bless The USA " - #1 SoundScan Inspirational Chart
- Steve Holy - Blue
Moon - #1 Billboard Heat Seekers Chart
- Steve Holy - "Good
Morning Beautiful" - #1 Billboard, #1 R&R, #1 Gavin, #1
Christian Country Music Association
- Natalie Grant - Dove
nomination for Female Vocalist of the Year
- Selah - 5 Dove
nominations
- Song of the Year
- "Press On"
- Group of the
Year
- Inspirational
Recorded Song - "Wonderful, Merciful Saviour"
- Traditional
Gospel Recorded Song - "Hold On"
- Inspirational
Album - Press On
- Selah receives Dove
Award for Traditional Gospel Recorded Song - " Hold On"
- Keith Perry -
"Mama Was Right" - #1 Christian Country Music Association
Chart
- Jo Dee Messina -
"Bring On The Rain" - #1 Billboard, #1 CMT, #1 Christian
Country Music Association
Burn (certified platinum)
- Point of Grace
(Word/Curb) - "You Will Never Walk Alone" - R&R #1;
"Yes, I Believe" - R&R #1
- Mark Schultz
(Word/Curb) - "Back In his Arms Again" - R&R #1
- Souljahz (Squint/Curb)
- "All Around The World" - R&R #1
- Sixpence None The
Richer (Squint/Curb)- "Breathe Your Name" - R&R #1
- 4 Him (Word/Curb) -
"Surrender" - R&R #1; "Who You Are" - R&R
#1
- Nicole C. Mullen
(Word/Curb) - "Come Unto Me" - R&R #1
- Tim McGraw - "The
Cowboy In Me" - #1 Billboard, #1 R&R (certified double
platinum)
Set This Circus Down (certified 2x platinum)
Greatest Hits (certified 3x platinum); "Unbroken" -
Billboard #1
- Hank Williams III
-"Lovesick, Broke & Driftin'" - #1 Americana
- Hank Williams, Jr. - Greatest
Hits, Vol. 1 - #1 Billboard Top Country Catalog Albums
- Curb Records sets
Billboard record with 6 of the top 5 records the same week
- "Good Morning Beautiful" by Steve Holy-
#1
- "Bring On The Rain" by Jo Dee Messina - #3
- "Cowboy In Me" by Tim McGraw - #5 on Billboard Hot Country
Singles and Tracks chart
- "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by LeAnn Rimes - #1
- "Osama Yo Mama" by Ray Stevens - #2
- "God Bless The USA" by Lee Greenwood - #4 on Billboard Top
Country Singles Sales Chart
- Gladys Knight & The
Pips - Greatest Hits (certified gold)
- Dean Martin - All
Time Greatest Hits (certified gold)
- Curb receives BMI
awards for "One More Day" (Diamond Rio) and "Bring On
The Rain" (Jo Dee Messina)
- Curb receives SESAC
awards for "Rivertown" (Walt Wilkins); "Three
Days" (Pat Green); "Carry On" (Pat Green); and
"Til Nothing Comes Between Us" (John Michael Montgomery)
- [Mike Curb
Center for Free Enterprise established (Junior Achievement)]
- [Mike Curb
elected to Belmont University's Board of Directors]
- [Mike Curb
elected to Fisk University's Board of Directors]
- [Mike Curb
elected to St. Thomas Health Services Board of Directors (5 hospitals,
including St. Thomas and Baptist Hospitals)]
- [The Mike Curb
Family Foundation buys RCA Studio B from The Country Music Foundation
and leases it back to them for $1.00 per year]
- [March 9, 2002
- Megan Carole Curb marries Brian Cox]
- [Mike Curb
honored with Doctor of Humanities Degree from Belmont University]
- [Curb becomes
partner in Word Records and Chairman of the Board]
- [Mike Curb
honored as Kiwanis Outstanding Nashvillian Of The Year]
2003
- Tim McGraw -
"She's My Kind Of Rain" - #1 R&R
- Randy Travis -
"Three Wooden Crosses" - #1 Billboard, CMA Song Of The Year (co-written by Doug Johnson and Kim Williams)
- Jo Dee Messina - Greatest
Hits - #1 Billboard
- Point of Grace
(Word/Curb) - "Day By Day" (written by Plumb) - #1 Billboard
Hot Christian AC Singles Chart
- MercyMe (Ino/Curb) -
"I Can Only Imagine", Top 5 Billboard and R&R A/C
Charts, #1 Billboard, 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Pop Sales Chart
Almost There - #1 Billboard Christian Album Chart (certified
platinum)
"Word Of God Speak" - #1 BDS Hot Christian Singles Chart
- Jeff Carson - "I
Can Only Imagine" - #1 Power Source Christian Chart
- Wynonna - What The
World Needs Now Is Love - #1 Billboard Country Album Chart
- Amy Grant - Simple
Things (Word/Curb) - #1 Billboard Top Christian Album Chart
- Tim McGraw - "Real
Good Man" - #1 R&R, #1 Billboard, #1 Music Row Chart;
"Tim McGraw And The Dancehall Doctors" - Billboard #1
- Natalie Grant - "I
Desire" - #1 Christian Radio Weekly
- Jamie Slocum - "I
Cannot Turn Away"- #1 R&R Inspirational Top 20 Singles
#1 Christian Radio Weekly
- 38th Parallel
(Squint/Curb) "Hear Me Cry" - R&R #1
- Mark Schultz
(Word/Curb) - "You Are A Child Of Mine" - R&R #1
- Mark Tinney -
"Take Me Flying" - #1 Power Source Christian Chart
- Curb receives BMI award
for "Three Wooden Crosses" (Randy Travis)
- Curb receives SESAC
award for "I Cannot Turn Away" (Jamie Slocum)
- [Curb Center
for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University]
- [May 9, 2003 -
Courtney Curb graduates from Vanderbilt University]
- [Mike Curb
inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame]
- [Curb Youth
Symphony and Curb Family Music Education Center at the Nashville
Symphony]
- [Curb Records -
R&R AC Label of the Year (Gold) and R&R Hot AC Label of the
Year (Gold)]
- [Johnny Sauter,
NASCAR Busch victory at Richmond in Curb/Agajanian-owned car]
- [The Belmont
University Board of Directors announces that the Mike Curb College of
Entertainment and Music Business becomes the first free standing
college of music and entertainment in the nation as well as the
largest college at Belmont University]
- [Provident
founder Jim Van Hook named as first Dean of the Mike Curb College of
Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University.]
- [Beaman/Curb
Boy Scout Conference Center in honor of Mike Curb's father Charles M.
Curb]
- [Mike Curb
Jubilee Singers Chair]
- [Mike and
Linda Curb receive the Harmony Award from The Nashville Symphony]
2004
- Rodney Atkins goes top
5 on Billboard Country Singles chart with "Honesty"
- Blue County goes top 10
in R&R with "Good Little Girls" (co-published by Curb)
- Jamie Slocum - By My
Side" - R&R #1 (co-published by Curb)
- Mark Schultz -
"You Are A Child Of Mine" (Word/Curb) - #1 R&R Christian
AC Top 30 Chart
- Building 429 -
"Glory Defined" (Word/Curb) #1 Billboard #1 R&R
Christian Singles Chart
- MercyMe (Ino/Curb) -
"Here With Me" - R&R #1
- Randy Travis -
"Three Wooden Crosses" (co-written by Doug Johnson and Kim
Williams) - ACM Song of the Year, CCMA Song of the Year, GMA Recorded Song of the Year, NSAI Song of the Year
(co-published by Mike Curb Music)
- Tim McGraw -
"Watch The Wind Blow By" - #1 Billboard Hot Country Singles
& Tracks, #1 R&R Country Top 50
- Kimberley Locke -
"8th World Wonder" - #1 Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales Chart
(co-published by Curb)
- Selah - Hiding Place
- #1 SoundScan Top Christian Album Chart
"You Raise Me Up" - #1 Billboard
- Trini Triggs -
"Heaven on Earth" - #1 Christian Country (Power Source);
- Tim McGraw - "Live
Like You Were Dying" - #1 Billboard; #1 R&R (10 weeks)
All-Time Record in the History of R&R Chart; #1 Nielsen Soundscan
Billboard Audience Chart (10 Weeks) Ties All Time Record, CMA Single Of The Year and CMA Song of the Year
- Tim McGraw - Live
Like Your Were Dying - Debuts #1 on Billboard Hot 100 Album Chart
& Country Album Chart
- Nelly - "Over
& Over" (featuring Tim McGraw) - #1 BB, #1 R&R, #1 CHR
Top 40 chart. 11 Weeks #1 Billboard Mainstream Top 40
- Tim McGraw - "Live
Like You Were Dying" - #1 Billboard Country Record of the Year
- Tim McGraw - "Back
When" - #1 Billboard, #1 R&R, #1 Canada
- Jeff Carson & Lisa
Brokop - "God Save The World" - #1 Power Source Christian
Country
- Curb receives BMI award
for "I Wanna Do It All" (Terri Clark)
- LeAnn Rimes -
"Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense" - R&R #1, #1 Canada
- Selah - "You Raise
Me Up" #1 R&R
- Nielsen SoundScan
Country label of the year
- [Curb Records
achieves #1 Market share position for all genres of music according to
Nielsen SoundScan (7.14% - August 29, 2004)]
- [Mike and Linda
Curb are presented the Jubilee Award from Fisk University]
- [Mike &
Linda Curb - invited guests to private funeral and burial of former
President Ronald Reagan at the Presidential Library in Simi Valley,
California]
- [August 21,
2004 - Courtney Curb marries Taylor Childress]
- [Elected to Board
of RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)]
2005
- Selah - "All My
Praise" #1 R&R (#1 Power Source Christian Chart); "Rose
Of Bethlehem" - Billboard #1
- MercyMe -
"Homesick" #1 R&R (#1 Power Source Christian Chart)
- Tim McGraw -
"Drugs Or Jesus" (#1 Power Source Christian Chart)
- Jo Dee Messina -
"Delicious Surprise" Certified Gold, "My Give A Damn's
Busted" Billboard #1 Single and #1 Album (Same Week)
- Curb achieves
Trifecta with 3 #1 Records at Christian Radio Weekly with
"Held" by Natalie Grant, "I Can't Do This" by
Plumb and "Resurrection" by Nicol Sponberg
- MercyMe - "In
The Blink Of An Eye" - #1 Billboard
- LeAnn Rimes - "Probably
Wouldn't Be This Way" Top 5 Billboard/R&R
- Natalie Grant -
"Held" - #1 Christian Radio Weekly
- Nicol Sponberg -
"Resurrection" - R&R #1
- Mark Schultz
(Word/Curb) - "I Am" - #1
- Point of Grace
(Word/Curb) - "Waiting In The Wings" - R&R #1
- Barlow Girl (Fervant/Curb)
- "Let Go" - R&R #1
- Wynonna - "Her
Story - Scenes From A Lifetime" debuts #2 on Billboards
- Sawyer Brown -
"They Don't Understand" - #1 Power Source
- Plumb - "I Can't
Do This" - #1 Christian Radio Weekly
- Curb #3 Billboard Pop
Label of the Year
- Curb #5 Billboard
Country Label of the Year
- Word/Curb #3 Christian
Label of the Year
- Word/Curb #5 Gospel
Label of the Year
- Kimberley Locke -
"Up On The Housetop" #1 - Tied for the fastest record to
reach #1 on the Billboard chart
- deSoL - "Little
Drummer Boy" - Highest debut for Billboard Pop A/C Chart
- Wynonna Judd - DVD
Certified Gold
- LeAnn Rimes -
"This Woman" Certified Gold (#1 in Canada, Two Top 5 singles
in the US)
- Curb/Word Label of the
Year - Selah (over 1 Million albums)
- Curb Records - R&R
Country Gold Label of the Year and R&R Overall Gold Label of the
Year]
- Curb receives ASCAP
award for "Suds In The Bucket" (Sara Evans)
- Curb receives BMI
awards for "Let Them Be Little" (Billy Dean); "Good
Little Girls" (Blue County); and "Suds In the Bucket"
(Sara Evans)
- [Curb family
establishes Eloisa Salazar Stout Library at Kipp Academy (In honor of
Mike Curb's grandmother and Megan & Courtney's great grandmother)]
- [Curb family
establishes Curb/Stout Patriots Theatre at Fort Campbell in honor of
Mike Curb's grandfather Charles J. Stout and all of the soldiers and
their families at Fort Campbell]
- [Curb family
establishes C.M. Curb Sanctuary at Baptist Hospital and St. Thomas'
Health Services (In honor of Mike Curb's grandfather Reverend C.M.
Curb)]
- [Mike Curb Family
Welcome Center established at Second Harvest Food Bank]
- [Mike Curb Learning
Center for the Junior Achievement was established in Los Angeles]
- [Mike Curb Family
Foundation purchases the Johnny Cash Awards Museum]
- [Mike Curb Family
Foundation purchases the Historic Quonset Hut Studio (First studio on
Music Row)]
- [Mike Curb Family
Foundation purchases the Historic Columbia Studio A (and the
Columbia/Sony Building)]
2006
- BarlowGirl - "I
Need You To Love Me" (Fervant/Curb) - #1 R&R
- Natalie Grant -
"What Are You Waiting For" - #1 Billboard; #1 R&R
- Selah - "Bless The
Broken Road - The Duets Album" - #1 Billboard; #1 R&R
- Plumb - "I Can't
Do This" - #1 R&R; "Better" - #1 R&R
- Tim McGraw -
"Greatest Hits Vol. 2" - #1 Billboard (certified platinum)
- Hank Williams III -
"Straight To Hell" - #1 R&R
- LeAnn Rimes -
"Something's Gotta Give" - R&R #1
- Tim McGraw - "When
The Stars Go Blue" - R&R #1
- Tim McGraw - "Live
Like You Were Dying" - 4x Platinum
- Tim McGraw - "All
I Want" - 3x Platinum
- Steve Holy -
"Brand New Girlfriend" - #1 Billboard; #1 R&R
- Kimberley Locke -
"Jingle Bells" - #1 Billboard; #1 R&R
- Rodney Atkins -
"If You're Going Through Hell" - #1 Billboard; #1 R&R;
#1 Record of the Entire Year 2006 in Billboard and R&R
First single to take the #1 spot on the Mediabase Country Chart
in USA Today
- Word/Curb - Billboard
Top Christian Imprint
- Curb Records
achieves 20 #1 Records on 20 different Billboard charts
- Curb receives BMI
awards for "My Give A Damn's Busted" (Jo Dee Messina) and
"Skin" (Rascal Flatts)
- Curb receives
SESAC award for "Lucky Star" (Buck Jones)
- [Mike Curb honored
as Distinguished Alumnus of California State University at Northridge
]
- [Joey Saldana - Top
3 National World of Outlaws Championship - Winner 2006 Big One at
Eldora Speedway]
- [Mike Curb inducted
into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame]
- [Mike Curb receives
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Annual Los Angeles Music
Awards]
- [Mike Curb Family
Foundation purchases Elvis Presley's first home on Audubon Drive in
Memphis, Tennessee.]
- [The Mike Curb
Music Institute is established at Rhodes College in Memphis,
Tennessee]
- [The Curb Learning
Lab for Music and Entertainment Marketing is established at Baylor
University in Texas]
- [The Mike Curb
Family Education Center is established at the San Antonio Humane
Society in Texas]
- [The Mike Curb
College for Arts, Media & Communication is dedicated at California
State University]
- [The Curb
Family Professorship for Business and Law is established at
Claremont/McKenna College along with the Curb Family Conference Room]
2007
- Selah -
"Glory" - #1 R&R, #1 BB
- Selah - "Hiding
Place" - Billboard #1, #1 Pop Catalog Albums Chart
- Rodney Atkins -
"If You're Going Through Hell" album certified platinum by
the RIAA
- Tim McGraw - Single
"Last Dollar" (Fly Away) - #1 BB, #1 R&R, #1 Mediabase,
#1 Canada
- Tim McGraw - "Let
It Go" album - #1 Debut Billboard Hot 100, #1 Country Chart
- Rodney Atkins -
"These Are My People" #1 BB, #1 R&R, CA/MB #1
- Kimberley Locke -
"Band Of Gold" - BB #1
- Kimberley Locke -
"Change" - #1 Dance Music Club Play (certified platinum)
- Kimberley Locke -
"Frosty The Snowman" - R&R #1
- Big Daddy Weave -
"Every Time I Breathe" (Fervant/Curb) - #1
- Barlow Girl
(Fervant/Curb) - "I Need You To Love Me" - Billboard #1
- NeedToBreathe (Atlantic/Word/Curb)
- "Signature Of Divine (Yahweh)" - Billboard #1
- WOW Gospel #1s
(Word/Curb/EMI/Verve) - Billboard #1
- WOW Gospel Christmas -
Billboard #1
- Point Of Grace
(Word/Curb/Warner) - "Winter Wonderland" - Billboard #1
- Plumb - "In My
Arms" - Billboard #1
- Word/Curb - #1
Christian Imprint Of The Year
- Tim McGraw - #1
Billboard Male Artist Of The Year; CMA Musical Event Of The Year - "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" with Kenny Chesney and Tracy Lawrence
- Curb receives BMI award
for "Watching You" (Rodney Atkins)
- Curb receives SESAC
award for "Diamonds In The Sun" (Walt Wilkins & The
Mystequeros)
- [Joey Saldana -
Runner-up World of Outlaws Championship (12 victories)]
- [Kevin Swindell -
Top 10 USAC National Midget and Sprint Car Championship - Winner at
Indianapolis Raceway Park]
- [Brady Bacon - Top
5 USAC National Sprint Car Championship]
- [Mike Curb receives
honorary degree from Rhodes College In Memphis, TN]
- [Mike Curb selected
as Nashvillian of the Year]
- [Mike Curb receives
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame]
- [Co-Chairman
w/Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - National Woodrow Wilson Awards
(Dolly Parton and Jack Bovender)]
2008
- Natalie Grant -
"In Better Hands" - #1 BB
- Rodney Atkins -
"Cleaning This Gun" #1 Billboard, #1 R&R
- Kimberley Locke -
"Fall" - BB #1
- Meredith Andrews -
"You Are Not Alone" (Word/Curb) - #1
- Point Of Grace -
"How You Live" (Word/Curb) - #1
- NeedToBreathe -
"Washed By The Water" - Billboard #1, R&R #1
- Jamie Slocum -
"Dependence" - R&R #1 (10 weeks)
- Natalie Grant - Dove
Awards Female Vocalist of the Year
- Traditional Gospel
Recorded Song of the Year - "Ready For A Miracle"; Evan
Almighty Soundtrack; LeAnn Rimes; Curb Records
- Curb receives ASCAP
awards for "More Than A Memory" (Garth Brooks); "You
Still Own Me" (Emerson Drive); "Tough" (Craig Morgan);
and "Nothin' Better To Do" (LeAnn Rimes)
- Curb receives BMI award
for "More Than A Memory" (Garth Brooks)
- [Brad Coleman
- Top 10 Watkins Glen and Las Vegas (NASCAR Nationwide)]
- [Brad Sweet -
Top 3 USAC National Midget Championship - Winner of Belleville
Nationals - Top 10 USAC National Sprint Car Championship]
- [Joey Saldana
- World of Outlaws - 7 victories - Top 5 World of Outlaws
Championship]
- [Curb receives
CA Film Festival Music Award (Temecula)]
- [Curb receives
the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phoenix Music Awards]
- [The Mike Curb
College of Art, Music and Science is established at Daytona State
College]
- [The Curb
Family Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic is established at the
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital]
- [The Curb
Event Center at the Curb College at Belmont University hosts the
Historic Town Hall debate between Senator John McCain and President
Barack Obama.]
2009
- Heidi Newfield recieves
5 ACM nominations for her single "Johnny & June", a
Tribute to Johnny & June Carter Cash
- Natalie Grant wins Dove GMA Female Vocalist of the Year Award, for the Fourth consecutive year
- Rodney Atkins
"It's America" - becomes his fifth #1 record
- Quentin Tarantino
selects "Devil's Rumble" (a song written by Davie Allan and
Mike Curb 45 years ago) for his #1 box office movie Inglourious
Basterds
- pureNRG (Fervant/Curb)
- "The Real Thing" - BB #1
- Francesca Battistelli
(Fervant/Curb) - "Free To Be Me" - BB #1
- Kaci Battaglia -
"Crazy Possessive" - BB #1
- Tim McGraw -
"Southern Voice" - SoundScan #1
- [Paulie
Harraka - NASCAR Camping World West Series - Top 10 - All American
Speedway, Phoenix, Madera, Iowa, New Hampshire, Irwindale, Miller
Motorsports Park - winner at Colorado & California - Top 5 in
championship standings]
- [Johnny Sauter
- NASCAR Camping World Truck Series - Top 10: Kansas, Dover, Texas,
Memphis, Nashville, Chicago, Iowa, Las Vegas, Gateway, Texas, New
Hampshire - winner at Las Vegas - Top 5 in championship point
standings]
- [Jason Keller
- NASCAR Nationwide Series - Top 10: Daytona, Talladega, Richmond,
Dover, Gateway, Iowa, Dover, Fontana - Top 10 in championship point
standings]
- [Josh Wise -
Edwards/Curb/Agajanian - USAC Silver Crown - Top 5 at Springfield
& New York; Top 10 at Manzanita - Top 5 in championship point
standings]
- [Brad Sweet -
USAC Sprint Car and Midget Car - Winner at Manzanita - Runner Up in Midget championship point standings and top 10 in Sprint championship point
standings]
- [Craig
Dollansky - World of Outlaws -3 victories - Top 10 in championship
point standings]
- [Joey Saldana
- World of Outlaws - 20 Victories - Top 3 in championship point
standings]
- [Honolulu College -
Curb Music & Entertainment Learning Experience Studios (MELE)]
- [Mike Curb receives
an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from California State
University]
- [The Curb
Creative Campus Program is established by the Curb Center at
Vanderbilt University]
2010
- "Hang On" by Plumb reaches the #1 position on the Billboard Dance Chart
- Billboard announces that "Something Like That" by Tim McGraw is the #1 record of the first decade of the century
- Francesca Battistelli (Fervant/Curb) wins Dove GMA Female Vocalist of the Year Award
- "Southern Voice" single becomes Tim McGraw's 23rd #1 Billboard single
- "Good Morning Beautiful" by Steve Holy - One of the top 10 records of the decade
- "Love Like Crazy" by Lee Brice - Billboard Song of the Year - breaks the longevity record by remaining on the Billboard chart for 56 weeks
- "She Won't Be Lonely Long" by Clay Walker - One of the top 10 Billboard songs of the year
- "Love Like Crazy" by Lee Brice and "She Won't Be Lonely Long" by Clay Walker receive BMI Awards (both published by Curb Music Publishing and released on Curb Records)
- [The St. Thomas/Baptist Hospital Systems induct Linda and Mike Curb into the Seton Society]
- [Greg Biffle 7 top 10 NASCAR finishes, including California, Las Vegas, Bristol, Phoenix, Richmond and Texas]
- [Scott Lagasse Top 10 NASCAR Nationwide at Phoenix]
- [Owen Kelley Top 5 NASCAR Nationwide at Road America]
- [Nelson Piquet, Jr. Top 10 NASCAR Nationwide at Watkins Glen]
- [Scott Wimmer Top 10 NASCAR Nationwide at Kentucky]
- [Paulie Harraka Winner at California, Top 3 NASCAR West Championship]
- [Kevin Swindell Runner Up at New Hampshire, Top 10 NASCAR East Championship]
- [Johnny Sauter Winner at Kansas, Top 3 NASCAR Camping World Truck Championship]
- [Levi Jones Winner at Copper on Dirt and Terre Haute, 2010 USAC Silver Crown Champion (Tony Stewart/Curb/Agajanian) ]
- [Bryan Clauson Winner at Eldora, 2010 USAC National Champion (Tony Stewart/Curb/Agajanian) ]
- [Joey Saldana 12 Victories including Thunderbowl Raceway, Tennessee (50th Victory), Runner Up 2010 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Owners Championship (Kahne/Curb/Agajanian) ]
- [Paul McMahan Winner at Eldora, Top 10 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Championship (Kahne/Curb/Agajanian) ]
- [Brad Sweet 4 Victories including Phoenix and Las Vegas, Top 10 USAC Midget Car Championship (Kahne/Curb/Agajanian) ]
- [To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Curb Agajanian Motorsports is proud to have qualified Mario Morales for the 2010 Indianapolis 500 with KV Racing and to have participated in the 2010 Brickyard 400 with Prism Racing and Michael McDowell]
2011
- "I Love Beer" by Rio Grand #1 Texas Music Chart (Billboard Update Chart)
- "Felt Good On My Lips" by Tim McGraw #1 Billboard Country Chart, First #1 Record of the year
- Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw realease "Me And Tennessee" from the motion picture Country Strong
- "Take A Back Road" (BMI Song of the Year) by Rodney Atkins #1 Billboard Country Chart; becomes Atkins' sixth #1 single
- "Crazy Girl" by the Eli Young Band wins Billboard Song of the Year co-published by Curb Publishing
- [Mike Curb receives the Nashville Pride Ally Award]
- [Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa dedicates the opening of the Valley Performing Arts Center (where Curb made the lead gift) and the Mike Curb College Broadcast Studios at California State University]
- [Mike Curb receives the Star of the Valley Award at the Valley Performing Arts Center]
- [Bryan Clauson Winner of USAC Midget National Championship; Winner of Indiana Speed Week Championship; Winner of Chili Bowl Prelim; 8th in Championship Point Standings in USAC Sprint; Top 5 in the Indianapolis Freedom 100; USAC Overall National Champion]
- [Levi Jones National USAC Silver Crown Champion, driving for Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian team]
- [Johnny Sauter 2 victories and 19 top 10 finishes in Nationwide Truck Series]
- [Joey Saldana Wins his 60th World of Outlaws race for the Kasey Kahne/Curb Agajanian Team and wins the Volusia Dirt Nationals during Daytona Speed Week]
- [Curb makes 500th NASCAR start at Nashville with Johnny Sauter]
- [Curb makes 100th Sprint Cup start at Kansas with Austin Dillon]
- [Dan Wheldon Winner of Centennial Indianapolis 500 in Herta-Curb-Agajanian Indy car]
2012
- Governor Haslam appoints Mike Curb Chairman of the Commission of Music Entertainment and Film
- "Busted Heart (Hold On To Me)" by For King & Country - Billboard #1
- "Emotional Traffic" by Tim McGraw - Billboard #1
- "I Turn To You" by Selah - Billboard #1
- "Live Like That" by Sidewalk Prophets - Billboard #1
- "A Woman Like You" and "Hard 2 Love" by Lee Brice - Billboard #1 - certified Gold
- Natalie Grant receives Dove Award for Female Vocalist Of The Year
- Selah receives Dove Award for Inspirational Album Of The Year - "Hope Of The Broken World"
- Selah receives Dove Award for Inspirational Song Of The Year - "Hope Of The Broken World"
- "The Story" featuring Selah and Natalie Grant receives Dove Award for Special Event Album Of The Year
- Natalie Grant receives Dove Award for Worship Song Of The Year - "Your Great Name"
- [Shank/Curb-Agajanian wins the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona]
- [Mike Curb receives Robert Mulloy Award at Belmont's Best of the Best]
- [Schmidt/Curb-Agajanian wins Freedom 100 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with Driver Esteban Guerrieri and the Championship with Tristan Vautier]
- [Curb-Agajanian wins the USAC Triple Crown by winning the Championships on all 3 Divisions (Silver Crown, Midget, Sprint Car)]
- [Curb receives President's Award at Cal State Channel Islands]
- [UCLA establishes the Mike Curb Music and Technology Lab at the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Center in conjunction with the Herb Alpert School of Music]
- [The Mike Curb Memphis Music Hall of Fame Gallery is established at the Rock 'N' Soul Museum in Memphis]
- [The Grammy Museum selects Curb as Grammy Icon]
2013
- Lee Brice has a Billboard #1 record with "I Drive Your Truck" (CMA Song of the Year)
- Big Daddy Weave #1 "Redeemed"
- "Natalie Grant debuts at #1 with "Hurricane"
- Lee Brice - "Hard 2 Love" Certified Gold
- [The Mike Curb Gallery is established at the Grammy Museum]
- [Kunz/Curb-Agajanian wins the 2013 USAC National Midget Championship with Christopher Bell]
- [Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian wins the 2013 USAC Sprint Car Championship with Bryan Clauson and the 2013 Silver Crown Championship with Bobby East]
- [Curb-Agajanian wins the USAC Triple Crown by winning the Championships on all 3 Divisions (Silver Crown, Midget, Sprint Car)]
- [Curb-Agajanian sets USAC record with 36 victories in 2013]
- [Schmidt/Curb-Agajanian wins the Indy Lights Championship]
- [Curb wins the NASCAR K&N Championship with Dylan Kwasniewski]
- [Bobby Santos wins NASCAR Modified Races at Historic Thompson and Stafford Speedways]
- [Johnny Sauter wins NASCAR Truck Races at Daytona Martinsville and Talladega]
- [Michael McDowell finished Top 10 in the Daytona 500 (Sprint Cup Series) and Kevin Swindell finished Top 10 at the Indianapolis and California in the NASCAR Nationwide Series]
- [Kasey Kahne/Mike Curb win the World of Outlaws Championship with Daryn Pittman]
- [The Linda and Mike Curb Recording Studio is dedicated at Rocketown]
- [Mike Curb receives the Jack C. Massey Leadership Award from Mental Health America of Middle Tennessee]
2014
- Grammy Nomination Best Country Solo Performance: Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck
- Grammy Nomination Best Country Song: Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck
- Grammy Nomination Best Gospel / Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Natalie Grant - Hurricane
- Grammy Nomination Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: Natalie Grant - Hurricane
- Curb Records recording of Lee Brice's "I Drive Your Truck" becomes the ACM Song of the Year and is nominated for two Grammys.
- Lee Brice reaches #1 on the Billboard chart with "I Don't Dance" which is also certified platinum.
- Curb Records celebrates its 50th Anniversary with over 100 Billboard awards and achievements and 300 Billboard #1's.
- [Mike Curb receives Musicians Hall of Fame Award]
- [Bryan Clauson wins the 2014 Chili Bowl with Curb Drivers Kevin Swindell and Christopher Bell finishing 2nd and 3rd]
- [Daryn Pittman - Runner-up in overall World of Outlaws standings]
- [Cameron Hayley - NASCAR K&N East National Runner-up]
- [Brandon McReynolds - Top 10 K&N West Championship]
- [Johnny Sauter - Top 5 NASCAR Camping World Trucks year-end point standings]
- [Michael Lewis - Top 3 Year-end IMSA Tudor GT3 National Championship]
- [Shank/Curb-Agajanian - Top 10 Year-end Tudor Prototype National Championship]
- [Gary Putnam - 8th in the NASCAR Southern Modified National Championship]
- [Bobby East and Chris Windom finish 3rd & 4th respectively in the USAC Silver Crown year-end standings]
- [Bryan Clauson - Indiana Sprint Week Champion]
- [Bryan Clauson - Runner-up National Sprint Car Championship]
- [Rico Abreu - Indiana Speedweek Champion]
- [Rico Abreu - USAC National Midget Championship for Kunz/Curb-Agajanian]
- [Kyle O'Gara - Pavement Midget Champion]
- [Jason Johnson - ASCS National Champion]
- [Christopher Bell - World POWRi Champion]
- [Kunz/Curb-Agajanian - NMDOTY Car Owner of the Year]
- [Christopher Bell - NMDOTY Driver of the Year]
- [Adrian Starrantino - 7th in Formula 2000 year-end standings]
- [Jack Harvey - 2nd in the Indy Lights National Championship]
2015
- Curb Records celebrates its 50th Anniversary with over 100 Billboard awards and achievements and 300 Billboard #1's.
- Mediabase names Curb Records Gold Label of the Year at the 2015 CRS Convention
- Lee Brice's record "I Don't Dance" won the ACM Single Record of the Year during the Academy's 50th Anniversary in front of the largest live audience in the history of all awards shows
- [Mike Curb honored with the 40th annual Historic Achievement Award from the Metropolitan Historical Commission for his numerous acts of preservation, including 10 buildings on Nashville's historic Music Row]
- [Rico Abreu wins the 2015 Chili Bowl Nationals in the Kunz/Curb-Agajanian car. ]
- [Top 10 Tudor Daytona Prototype Championship]
- [Donny Schatz wins 2015 World of Outlaws Championship]
- [Johnny Sauter - Top 5 NASCAR Camping World Trucks National Championship]
- [Dave Darland - Runner Up USAC National Sprint Car Championship]
- [Gary Putnam - Top 10 Year-End Point Standings
in NASCAR Southern Modified and Southern Modified Racing Tour]
- [Tanner Thorson - POWRi Top 10 Year-End Point Standings]
- [Rico Abreu - Top 5 NASCAR K&N East Year-End Point Standings]
- [Kunz/Curb-Agajanian - USAC National Midget Championship]
- [Rico Abreu - Indiana Midget Week Champion]
- [Badger - Top 10 Year-End Point Standings]
- [Donny Schatz - North American 410 Winged Sprint Car Driver of the Year]
- [Stewart-Curb/Agajanian - North America 410 Winged Sprint Car Owner of the Year]
- [NMDOTY Championship (Tanner Thorson, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian)]
2016
- The Grammy Gallery at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum opens
- Curb acquires a 100% interest in Word Records, the oldest gospel record company in the United States.
- [Curb receives the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)]
- [Curb inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame on its 50th anniversary]
- [Rico Abreu wins the 2016 Chili Bowl Nationals in the Kunz/Curb-Agajanian car.]
- [Donny Schatz - 2016 World of Outlaws Champion]
- [Alexander Rossi - Winner at the Indianapolis 500]
- [Alexander Rossi - 2016 IndyCar Rookie of the Year; Top 11 Point Standings]
- [Bryan Clauson wins 2016 Indiana Midget Week Championship]
- [Kunz/Curb-Agajanian wins USAC National Midget Championship]
- [Tanner Thorson wins USAC National Midget Championship]
- [NMDOTY Championship (Tanner Thorson, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian)]
2017
- [Curb receives a Living Legends of Auto Racing Award in Daytona]
- [Curb receives an honorary degree from Fisk University]
- [Fisk names Curb an Honorary Fisk Jubilee Singer]
- [Christopher Bell wins the 2017 Chili Bowl Nationals in the Kunz/Curb-Agajanian car]
- [Brad Sweet wins World of Outlaws Overall Knoxville Nationals]
- [Donny Schatz wins 2018 Overall Volusia Nationals]
- [Donny Schatz wins 2018 Knight Before the Kings Royal and the Kings Royal]
- [Donny Schatz wins 2017 World of Outlaws Championship]
- [Grant Enfinger - Top 10 NASCAR Camping World Trucks Point Standings]
- [Spencer Bayston wins 2017 USAC Midget Championship]
- [Alexander Rossi - #7 IndyCar Championship Point Standings]
- [Todd Gilliland wins 2017 K&N West National Championship]
- [NMDOTY Championship (Spencer Bayston, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian)]
2018
- [Mike Curb is receiving a BCMA award for Record Executive of the Year.]
- [Mike Curb receives the North Carolina Music Hall Of Fame Chairman's Award]
- [Mike Curb receives Men Who Changed Racing Award by the Racers Reunion.]
- [Christopher Bell wins the 2018 Turkey Night Grand Prix. ]
- [Christopher Bell, Rico Abreu and Spencer Bayston finish 1-2-3 in the 2018 Chili Bowl Nationals
Spencer Bayston wins overall 2018 Indiana Midget Week ]
- [Logan Seavey wins 2018 USAC Midget Championship - Kunz/Curb-Agajanian]
- [Grant Enfinger - Top 5 Camping World Trucks Year-End Point Standings]
- [Dave Darland sets all-time record with 62 USAC Sprint Car victories]
- [Marco Andretti - 9th in IndyCar Year-End Points Standing]
- [Herta/Curb-Agajanian wins 2018 Pirelli World Challenge Championship]
- [Tucker Klaasmeyer wins 2018 World POWRi Championship]
- [NMDOTY Championship (Logan Seavey, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian)]
2019
- "God Only Knows" by for KING & COUNTRY with Dolly Parton wins Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of The Year
- [Mike Curb receives J.A. Hall of Fame National Centennial Leadership Award]
- [Christopher Bell wins the 2019 Chili Bowl Nationals in the Kunz/Curb-Agajanian car]
- [Derek Kraus - NASCAR K&N West Champion (McAnally/NAPA/Curb) - also NASCAR K&N East winner at New Smyrna]
- [Grant Enfinger - NASCAR Trucks - Regular Season Championship (ThorSport/Curb Records)]
- [Jesse Colwell - POWRi Championship]
- [Shank/Curb-Agajanian - IMSA Daytona GTD Championship]
- [Herta/Curb-Agajanian - IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Championship]
- [Donny Schatz wins World of Outlaws Knight Before the Kings Royal]
- [Brad Sweet - World of Outlaws Champion - also wins Kings Royal and Gold Cup Race of Champions]
2020
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"God Only Knows" by for KING & COUNTRY with Dolly Parton wins Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
- "God Only Knows" by for KING & COUNTRY with Dolly Parton wins Dove Award for Short Form Video Of The Year
- "burn the ships" by for KING & COUNTRY wins Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
- for KING & COUNTRY wins Dove Award for Artist Of The Year
- "I Hope You're Happy Now" by Lee Brice with Carly Pearce wins CMA Award for Musical Event Of The Year
2021
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Grammy producer award to Paul Kwami and Mike Curb
"Fisk Jubilee Singers Celebrating Fisk -the 150th Anniversary Album" by The Fisk Jubilee Singers wins Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album
- "I Hope You're Happy Now" by Lee Brice and Carly Pearce wins two ACM Awards - Single Of The Year and Musical Event Of The Year
- Dylan Scott's #1 RIAA Gold hit "Nobody" wins 2021 CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video Of The Year
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