Mike Curb Congregation

Tranquility pop chorale the Mike Curb Congregation was the brainchild of maker and music industry veteran Curb, a notoriously conservative number who upon assuming the positioning of MGM Information chief executive in 1969 promptly fired his whole A&R division and dropped all the label’s counterculture functions. Commensurate with such mandates he put together the Mike Curb Congregation, an normally anonymous studio room aggregation within the mildew of large-scale vocal organizations just like the Doodletown Pipers. Favoring saccharine materials and childlike harmonies in immediate opposition to rock’s prevailing psychedelic attitude, the group however scored a high 40 strike with 1970’s “Burning up Bridges,” the theme towards the Clint Eastwood film Kelly’s Heroes. A small number of minor chart strikes followed, included in this 1971’s “Special Gingerbread Guy” and another year’s “Find You in Sept.” Furthermore, their documenting of “It’s a little World” continued to become the state theme song from the Disneyland appeal of the same name. However the Mike Curb Congregation was better known because of its collaborations. They supported Sammy Davis, Jr. on his chart-topping “Chocolate Guy,” and had been regulars on television’s Glen Campbell Great Period Hour, in 1972 also launching the LP Sing Their Strikes from ‘The Glen Campbell Display.’ So ubiquitous and innocuous was the group it also appeared on the Light House over the invitation of then-President Richard Nixon. Curb taken the plug over the task sometime in the middle-’70s. In 1978, he was elected lieutenant governor from the condition of California, and in 1980 reassembled the Mike Curb Congregation lengthy more than enough to record “Jointly, a New Starting,” the theme for Ronald Reagan’s effective presidential campaign.