[6] In 1963 and at the age of 18, Curb formed Sidewalk Records and helped start the careers of multiple West Coast rock and roll artists.

Curb scored the music for the short film Skaterdater (1965)[9][10] as well as The Wild Angels (1966),[11] Thunder Alley[12] (1967), Devil's Angels[13] (1967), The Born Losers (1967) (the first of the Billy Jack films),[14] Maryjane[15] (1968), The Wild Racers[16] (1968), The Savage Seven[17] (1968), The Big Bounce[18] (1969), The Sidehackers[19] (1969) and Black Water Gold[20] (1970).

The song was used as the theme of Brian G. Hutton's film Kelly's Heroes, which starred Clint Eastwood.

The group collaborated with the Sherman Brothers on the composition "It's a Small World," which reached the Top Ten Billboard AC in 1973.

1 Billboard Hot 100 hit of 1972, "The Candy Man" (the Aubrey Woods version was featured in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory).

He also signed artists such as the Sylvers, Eric Burdon, War, Richie Havens, the Five Man Electrical Band, Gloria Gaynor, Johnny Bristol, Exile, The Four Seasons and the Dutch singer Heintje Simons and The Mob (Chicago band) to his labels.

Curb ran a short-lived country music subsidiary label for Motown called Hitsville Records.

[citation needed] Curb served as chairman of the Inaugural Youth Concert for President Richard Nixon's second term on January 20, 1973.

Solomon Burke, The Mob, Jimmy Osmond, Tommy Roe, Ray Stevens, The Sylvers, The Don Costa Orchestra, and Laurie Lea Schaefer were on the stage for the young audience.

Over the years, Curb Records has been home to Wynonna Judd, Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Hank Williams Jr., the Judds, Lyle Lovett, Natalie Grant, Ray Stevens, Rodney Atkins, Jo Dee Messina, Sawyer Brown, Lee Brice, Dylan Scott, Hannah Ellis, Harper Grace and For King & Country.

When they appear smashed out of their minds and describe musically a great experience they had on LSD, they are glorifying hard drugs.

Billboard reported that Curb was alarmed by the drug-related deaths of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Alan Wilson of Canned Heat.

[40] Among the musicians incorrectly thought to be included in the purge were The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa's group The Mothers of Invention.

Zappa, however, spoke out against drug use throughout his career and, by early 1969, had fulfilled his MGM/Verve contract and moved to his own Bizarre Records label, distributed by Warner Bros.

The Velvet Underground had already left the label by then to sign with Atlantic Records, who released their fourth studio album Loaded.

[46] Columbia Records president Clive Davis said Curb was "grandstanding", and that his anti-drug stance had made him "a minor hero of the Nixon administration.

During much 1979–1980, when Brown was out of the state campaigning to become the Democratic presidential candidate, Curb was acting governor, vetoing legislation, issuing executive orders, and making appointments.

[49] [50] In 1982, Curb lost the Republican gubernatorial nomination to California Attorney General George Deukmejian.

In 1986, Curb ran again for lieutenant governor as the Republican nominee against the incumbent Democrat, Leo T. McCarthy, losing a bitterly contested race, largely run on the issue of punishment for drug trafficking and violent crimes.

Parsons drivers Christopher Bell and Rico Abreu won the 2013 and 2014 USAC National Midget tours.

In 2024, he made the largest ever donation to Belmont, contributing $58 million to expand the Curb College's presence on Music Row.

[60] CSU Channel Islands dedicated the Mike Curb Studio in Napa Hall at the Camarillo, California campus on October 21, 2010.