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1962
- Mike Curb graduated from high school
- "Speedway" by the Heyburners was released on Titanic Records and "Pow Wow" by the Sudells was released on American Artists Records. Both songs were written by Curb and performed by his high school band.
1963
- Mike Curb - 17 years old
- Signed by Bobby Darin to a songwriter contract
- "Warpath" was released on Cude Records (later released on Marc 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
1965
- First Curb/Sidewalk record hits Billboard top 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 composed music score for Cannes award-winning film "Skater Dater"
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
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)
- Terry Stafford performed Curb-written Billy Jack theme "Alone Never To Love Again"
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
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 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 pop 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" Signed Bobby Bloom - top 10 record on Billboard pop singles chart " Montego Bay"
- 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
- Signed the Five Man Electrical Band - top 3 record on Billboard pop singles chart - "Signs" Hank Williams, Jr. with Mike Curb Congregation - top 5 on Billboard country singles chart with "Raining In My Heart"
1971
- Curb signed The Osmond Brothers - first #1 hit - "One Bad Apple" - 5 weeks @ #1 on Billboard chart
- Osmonds LP hits top 15 of Billboard pop chart (certified gold)
- Donny Osmond - The Donny Osmond Album (certified gold)
- 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 pop 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 co-wrote and produced the theme from the MGM
film "No Blade of Grass" and produced the single which
was released by Roger Whitaker
- 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 named 1972 Producer of the Year by
Billboard
- 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
- Curb produced "Daisy A Day" by Jud Strunk - backed by Mike Curb Congregation - top 15 on Billboard pop 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"
- 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)
1974
- Curb produced Donny and Marie Osmond - "I'm Leaving It All Up To You" - #1 on Billboard AC chart - top 5 on Billboard pop 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
- 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 - top 10 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 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 produced top 20 Billboard country single for Eddy Arnold - "I Wish That I Had Loved You Better"
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 pop 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 pop singles chart
- Curb signed Four Seasons
First single - "Who Loves You" - #3 Billboard pop 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
1976
- Curb signed Bellamy Brothers (produced by Phil Gernhard)
"Let Your Love Flow" went to #1 Billboard pop 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 pop 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 pop charts
- Curb produced "Deep Purple" by Donny and Marie
Osmond - top 15 Billboard pop 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
- Co-Chairman, California's President Ford Campaign
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 pop
singles chart
Shaun Cassidy "That's Rock and Roll" - #3 Billboard
pop chart
Shaun Cassidy - Born Late (certified platinum)
- Curb signed Debby Boone - "You Light Up My Life"
- #1 Billboard pop 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
- Hues Corporation signed with Curb - Billboard top
100 pop - "I Caught Your Act"
- California Museum of Science and Industry's Museum
Fellowship Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business
- [Curb married Linda Dunphy]
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 pop 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 pop singles chart - "Hey Deanie"
Shaun Cassidy - Under Wraps (certified platinum)
- Bellamy Brothers - top 20 on Billboard country singles chart - "Slippin Away"
- Suzy Allanson - two top 10 Billboard country chart singles
#2 Billboard country singles chart - "We Belong Together"
#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)
- Bill LaBounty has 3 chart records - 3 Billboard AC chart records and 1 Billboard pop 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 pop chart
- Frankie Valli - last Billboard chart album - (Grease) Is The Word
- [Curb elected Lieutenant Governor of California]
1979
- Curb/Electra label is started with 2 top 10 Billboard country singles by Suzy 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 pop 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 pop 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"
- 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 became acting Governor of California (Supreme Court decision - December 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]
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 ]
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
- [Curb elected Chairman of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors]
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 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" (CMA Record of the Year)
#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
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
- [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]
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 (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
"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)]
- [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"
- 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"
- 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 CMA Vocal Group of the Year and 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
- Hank Williams, Jr. - 2 #1 Billboard country singles - "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Mind Your Own Business"
1 #2 Billboard country single - "Country State Of Mind"
#1 Billboard country album - Montana Cafe (4 weeks)
"All My Rowdy Friends" wins CMA Video of the Year and 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]
- [Curb-owned car won Pomona Winternationals (Tim Gross)]
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
- Desert Rose
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