Mike Curb Congregation Members - The best The Congregation Images, Pictures, Photos, Icons and Wallpapers on RavePad! Nevertheless, Curb has released three Rimes albums in 14 months, two of which consisted almost entirely of material previously recorded by other singers. The creation of songwriter/composer, producer, politician, and label exec Mike Curb, the Mike Curb Congregation was a harmony pop chorale who charted in the early '70s with songs like "Burning Bridges" and "Sweet Gingerbread Man." He continued to have pop hits, such as the Righteous Brothers’ platinum re-release of “Unchained Melody.”, Already however, in the mid-’70s and at the urging of former California Gov. What’s more, Curb says his royalty rates have always been fair, and he says he often pays artists more than is contractually required. The Mike Curb Congregation is made up of sixteen vibrant performers. His $1 million gift kicked off the Country Music Foundation’s campaign to raise funds for its new $26 million downtown facility. And yet his critics accuse him of serving up pabulum and catering to the lowest common denominator. Format: 12" LP (33 RPM). Please categorize your feedback from the dropdown box. Curb may know how to think big, and he has a reputation for spending promotional money freely. Then there is the case of the most recent Rimes album, You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs. Join the Community and Claim Your Username Now. Obviously, the fans don’t agree. They do not, however, sound much like the words of a Music Row mogul. His supporters give him credit for having “very commercial musical ears.” But T.K. Get all the lyrics to songs by Mike Curb Congregation and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. The Mike Curb Congregation. “I wasn’t even voting.”. Lyrics to 'Burning Bridges' by Mike Curb Congregation: Friends all tried to warn me But I held my head up high All the time they warned me But I only passed them by They all tried to tell me Curb also reissues “greatest hits” packages by performers such as Kenny Rogers, Gladys Knight & The Pips, the Four Seasons, and Ike & Tina Turner. The Mike Curb Congregation- it Was a Good Time Rosy's theme . Use Facebook to create your account. Burning Bridges Lyrics [Verse 1] Friends all tried to warn me But I … Its annual sales have topped $100 million. 5. Verified Purchase. These days, Curb retains many of the interests that have fascinated him for years. Curb vehemently disputes the attorney’s allegations. Genres: Pop, Teen Pop, Country. I wouldn’t want someone to say we succeeded and didn’t contribute to the community. I am interested in how I’m thought of in terms of being fair and contributing to the community. In town now for just five years, Curb and his family live in one of Nashville’s most imposing houses, the huge Hillsboro Road residence formerly occupied by Nashville Banner publisher Irby Simpkins and his wife, Peaches. “I had never considered [running for office],” he says. 1 hit, “Candy Man.” In the early ’70s he also wrote or produced hits for Hank Williams Jr., Liza Minnelli, Marie Osmond, and Eddy Arnold. CDs Vinyl. The place seems to be all function. Ravepad - the place to rave about anything and everything! That means that, if he wants to, Curb can pander shamelessly to the masses. He sounds like the Mike Curb one music attorney describes as “an enigma wrapped in a conundrum.” And Curb seems to like it that way. “It’s not one big happy family. Conventional wisdom held that, if Curb flooded the market with The Early Years, he would deal a death blow to Blue, which was still selling well and producing singles. Curb signed the Judds in 1983, Sawyer Brown in 1984, and Lyle Lovett in 1985. 1 record label in Nashville if we weren’t fast with our payments. Before Curb moved to Nashville, he launched most of his acts through production deals with other labels, such as MCA and Capitol, because he didn’t have the marketing or distribution needed to break a national act. The MCA lawsuit was settled and a joint venture called Curb/Universal was formed last year to handle Lovett and Wynonna. 5 spot on the country charts at the time. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1972 Vinyl release of Mike Curb Congregation Sing Their Hits From The Glen Campbell Show on Discogs. On the other hand, the Banner’s Irby Simpkins suggests that Curb is “shy, which is typical of an artist. He signs his own acts and approves his own budgets. All your Favorite Celebs - in One Place! And yet there’s little about Curb’s unremarkable 16th Avenue S. office that says anything about who he is. Curb supervised the soundtrack for Disney's "Lassie" movie. “I made the decision to devote the rest of my life to being in the music business and being a father.”, There are those who have their doubts as to whether Curb made the wisest choice. (In the music industry, the cliché is, “Throw it up and the wall and see what sticks.”) And they cite his lack of follow-through on the careers of Jo Dee Messina and Jeff Carson after their initial breakthroughs. “You were considered a freak if you spoke out against drugs,” Curb says. Around the same time, he formed the Mike Curb Congregation, a singing group who, in 1969, became regulars on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour for CBS. Curb was a record company executive who later became the lieutenant governor of the state of California. He ran for lieutenant governor of California and won. On the other hand, veteran music producer and publisher Buddy Killen chooses to credit Curb with having “a wide-open mind” that allows him to get “first shot at a lot of things.”, “If you play by the rules all the time, you’ll fall into the pattern of everyone else,” Killen says. In recent days Billboard named Curb Records its top country album label of the year. The awards document his accomplishments in building his company, Curb Records, into the most successful independent label in the country. It says little about the California boy who was president of MGM Records by the time he was 24 and who has now amassed a fortune somewhere between $50 million and $100 million, making him, according to Business Nashville, one of the 50 richest people in Nashville. See their Pictures, Watch Videos and Clips of Movies they were in, Answer Quizzes, and Connect with Fans just like you! 4.0 out of 5 stars A much better collection than "The Best of the Mike Curb Congregation. 24 December 1944, Savannah, Georgia, USA. (He is, after all, the man who brought us the Osmonds and Debby Boone.) “The films we make now for the most part are G films,” Curb says. Menu. According to the Sacramento Bee, Curb “tried to take advantage of [the] situation by making a controversial judicial appointment, but mostly succeeded in making an ass of himself.” Curb responds by describing the Bee as “one of the most liberal newspapers in America. Listen to Best of the Mike Curb Congregation by Mike Curb Congregation on Apple Music. “I’ll be honest with you,” he says, “I’m not in this anymore for the money. 1970 Kelly's Heroes (performer: "Burning Bridges" - as The Mike Curb Congregation) 1969 American Bandstand (TV Series) (1 episode) - Tommy … EMI, which claimed it also had a right to the Judds’ masters, sued Curb in 1994, bringing an end to their joint venture. Album . Indeed, Curb eschews the social functions that are a staple of the industry. Please include urls if you find an issue. In 1982, he ran for governor, but lost in the primary. The Democrat-controlled legislature even created a Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission to slow down the appointment process and guarantee that Brown, a liberal Democrat, would have enough time to return home and nullify Curb’s decisions. It says almost nothing about the only producer on Music Row who has ever served as acting governor of California. This will speed things up. Once a rising star in Republican politics, Curb ended up as little more than a footnote in California history. Undeterred, Curb released Rimes’ version as its own single and video, knowing that the move might have killed the momentum of “The Light in Your Eyes,” which held the No. “He’s a marketing genius with an absolute great heart,” says Creative Artists Agency’s Rod Essig, who books McGraw, Wynonna, and Rimes. Maybe that explains his lack of interest in the party scene. Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by color family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} Photo of Mike CURB CONGREGATION and Mick CURB; posed. As it turns out, the album Blue has sold almost 5 million copies, and Rimes was recently named the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award winner, capping a year in which she also won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Curb remains sanguine about his political experience. I would look you in the eye and say we would not be here today as the No. Dropping out of college in 1963 at the age of 19, Curb formed his first record company, Sidewalk Records (a predecessor of Curb Records) and helped launch the careers of West Coast rock and roll artists such as the Stone Pon… As a result of his sizable donations, the music business program at Belmont University now bears his name, as does the family music center at West Nashville’s exclusive Harpeth Hall School. He is not as gregarious as you would think a guy in his position might be.”, But plenty of people in the music business have another read on Curb. He is the sole investor in his company. Gold records line the walls, the result of his professional associations with LeAnn Rimes, Debby Boone, and Donny & Marie Osmond. He has been married to Linda Dunphy Curb since April 4, 1978. George Bush picked Quayle two years later. Some who have worked with him or have observed him closely charge that he has “questionable business ethics” and that he has little interest in making friends because he is simply “a business guy who takes care of himself.” According to one label executive, “If he tramples the act and the format in the meantime, it doesn’t make any difference.”, Curb shrugs off such aspersions. A lot of Music Row insiders like to dismiss Curb as little more than a politician who just happens to make records. During his five years at MGM, Curb signed the Osmonds and produced their first No. “I hope that people feel that I’m fair in my business practices and that I’m practicing religion in my daily life,” he says. “Curb used to sign acts who could not otherwise get signed, and his royalty structure was extremely low, 6 to 7 percent royalties,” says a music attorney who adds that the norm for the industry at the time was 9 to 10 percent. I spent a short time in government, and I learned there that someone is going to criticize you every day. 1 titles on the country chart. Variety Shows w/"The Mike Curb Congregation" Sonny & Cher Show Tony Bennett Special - Hawaii Jose Feliciano Special - New York 1973 Grammy Awards Show Michael LeGrande Special 1974 Academy Awards Show. During Brown’s absences, too, Curb took the opportunity—granted to him by the state Constitution—to make numerous appointments. Yearwood was then tapped to record the song, which MCA decided to release as a single and a video. Formed in 1969 around the time Curb became president of MGM Records, the Congregation consisted of over a dozen performers from a … What’s more, he seems to have little interest in impressing the cultural elite. As it turned out, country radio embraced Yearwood’s version, which eventually captured the No. “There’s a lot more competition in this town than I expected when I moved here,” he says. Everything on the disc, except for the title track, had been recorded for a small independent Texas label, and the album was roundly criticized, both for its poor production and for Rimes’ undeveloped stylings. For some observers that increases his mystique; for others, his independence is only a reason for further disdain. Selling more than 186,000 copies the first week and nearly 205,000 last week, it was Rimes’ best-selling debut ever, making her the first solo female artist to have three consecutive No. The two men remained close friends until Atwater’s death in 1991. They say his greed will very likely scuttle the 15-year-old Rimes’ skyrocketing career. Some naysayers warned that the Patsy Cline-influenced “Blue” was too retro for contemporary radio, while “Hurt Me” was too mature for a 14-year-old. Curb does have at least one fact right: While every other Nashville label head answers to bosses in New York or Los Angeles—bosses who are wanting answers about the decline in country sales—Curb calls all the shots himself. As a label head, Curb has been bombarded on all sides for his handling of LeAnn Rimes’ career. If the artist had a hit, the attorney says, Curb would renegotiate a higher royalty rate, but only if the act would agree to two more albums with Curb Records. People are afraid to be with an independent company for that reason.”. But Curb insists that all such projects are mere sidelines, compared to the music business, which, to hear him tell it, is his version of a magnificent obsession. It reveals little about the man who wrote “You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda,” recorded “Candy Man” with Sammy Davis Jr., and went on to become a protegé of Ronald Reagan. It was not surprising that they would be angry over certain appointments that I made.”. He began his musical career singing, “You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda,” which, along with other jingles, made him a hit on Madison Avenue. “The two hardest working people that I’ve seen day in and day out have been [BMI president and CEO] Frances Preston and Mike Curb,” says artist manager Stan Moress, who worked for Curb at MGM in 1970. DVDs Blu-ray VHS. And Curb, admittedly, has made a fortune by not offending anybody—at least not anybody who buys records. Curb paid $2.45 million for the house in 1992. He owns a fleet of racing cars that have been driven to victory by drivers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. Top Songs By The Mike Curb Congregation. It’s a very competitive town where all the major labels, with the exception of mine, are owned by big companies, and there’s a lot of pressure.” Riding high for the moment, he says, “There’s a feeling in this town that the country music business is down and if there’s a company that isn’t down, that disputes what [the other labels] are telling their bosses.”, Insofar as he can tell, Curb says, his own relationship with “the bigger community of Nashville” has been wonderful, while it’s “the Music Row community that’s very competitive and hard.” Then he adds, as if he had stumbled upon a great discovery, “But you know something? A much better collection than "The Best of the Mike Curb Congregation." Formed in 1969 around the time Curb became president of MGM Records, the Congregation consisted of over a dozen performers from a … You will be pleased, so buy it now! Gifts. I’m trying to do something positive. In one highly controversial instance, he appointed a conservative judge to the state Court of Appeals, a stepping stone to a seat on the state Supreme Court. In 1987 Curb told the Los Angeles Times, “There’s nothing wrong with making exploitation films as long as people want to see them.” Now he says that most of the films made and distributed by his company are family movies. The Mike Curb Congregation recorded "Walt Disney's Greatest Hits," an album for Disney featuring contemporary versions of Disney classics that included Curb's Top 10 Billboard hit rendition of "It's A Small World." He seems to have little social life, and he admits to having few close friends here. In 1972 Billboard named him its producer of the year. In what was perhaps an even more daring move this past May, Curb breached all Music Row protocol and released Rimes’ version of “How Do I Live,” on the same day that MCA Nashville Records released Trisha Yearwood’s version of the same song. You can go through and say, ‘What if I had done this or that?’ But it doesn’t work.”, And he is adamant that he will never run for office again. When Curb took office, he put his label into a trust. I honestly mean this, I’m not doing it for the money. They sound more like the words of a man who might once again want to be lieutenant governor of California. In addition to Rimes, Lovett, and Wynonna, the various rosters include the likes of Tim McGraw, David Kersh, Jo Dee Messina, Sawyer Brown, Hank Williams Jr., and Hal Ketchum. They have two children. In 1976 Curb served as chairman of Reagan’s presidential campaign in California and later was co-chair of Gerald Ford’s California campaign. I love music; it’s not about fighting for pennies. On Music Row, a record label traditionally releases, at most, one album per year for each of its artists. Earlier this very week, Curb claimed 36 percent of Billboard’s Top 75 country market. In the deal he got 20 percent of MGM and, at 24, became president of the label. Jerry Brown was out of the state, running for president and dating Linda Ronstadt, Curb filled in as acting governor. That year, he merged Sidewalk Records with the ailing MGM Records. The creation of songwriter/composer, producer, politician, and label exec Mike Curb, the Mike Curb Congregation was a harmony pop chorale who charted in the early '70s with songs like "Burning Bridges" and "Sweet Gingerbread Man." Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2018. “Artists would come in and meet with you and show you their needle marks.” Still, he says, he got “a lot of grief” for sticking with his decision. After MGM was sold to PolyGram in 1974, Curb revived his label, then called Curb Records, and produced hits such as the Four Seasons’ “Oh What A Night,” The Bellamy Brothers’ “Let Your Love Flow,” and Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life.” Almost a decade later, in 1983, Curb made an aggressive assault on the country market by signing the Judds. “If you want to be big, you have to go over those walls and creatively be different.”. “I won lieutenant governor one time, and I ended up being governor for so long that, if I had continued on doing that, I wouldn’t have Curb Records today. He is both high-profile and intensely private. The creation of songwriter/composer, producer, politician, and label exec Mike Curb, the Mike Curb Congregation was a harmony pop chorale who charted in the early '70s with songs like "Burning Bridges" and "Sweet Gingerbread Man." I’ve got a nice family, so I don’t even pay attention. As a freshman at San Fernando Valley State College, while working in the practice rooms of the Department of Music, Curb wrote the song "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda (Go Little Honda)" which the company selected for its ad campaign. Today his empire, with its 100 employees, consists of three labels—Curb Nashville, Curb/MCG, and Curb/Universal. “There’s no way you can compete with major labels without making your agreements good or better and without paying well or better,” he says.

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