* 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( The Impressions ) ( d. 1999 )

* The song " Music Matters " by Faithless mentioned Kurtis Blow: " From Bamma Lamma to Tamla Mo, Curtis Mayfield to Kurtis Blow ".

* " Underground ", a song by Curtis Mayfield from his second studio album, Roots

* New World Order ( album ), a 1997 album by Curtis Mayfield

The Band's music fused many elements: primarily old country music and early rock and roll, though the rhythm section often was reminiscent of Stax or Motown, and Robertson cites Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Singers as major influences, resulting in a synthesis of many musical genres.

* December 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer ( b. 1942 )

** Curtis Mayfield, American musician ( d. 1999 )

His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder.

In Chicago, Curtis Mayfield helped develop the sweet soul sound that later earned him a reputation as the Godfather of northern soul.

The social and political ferment of the times inspired artists like Gaye and Curtis Mayfield to release album-length statements with hard-hitting social commentary.

Curtis Mayfield not only scored many hits with his group, The Impressions, but wrote many hit songs for Chicago artists and produced hits on his own labels for The Fascinations and the Five Stairsteps.

The Impressions's " We're a Winner ", written by their lead singer Curtis Mayfield, became a virtual anthem of the black power and black pride movements, as did James Brown's " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ", Collin Carlone's " Life As a ' Boro Black Boy ", and, unwittingly, Martha & the Vandellas ' " Dancing in the Street ".

His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.

Curtis Lee Mayfield ( June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999 ) was an American soul, R & B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Mayfield's father left the family when Mayfield was five and his mother moved Curtis and his siblings into various Chicago projects before settling at the Cabrini – Green projects when Mayfield reached his teenage years.

In his 2003 biography of Curtis Mayfield, titled " People Never Give Up ", author Peter Burns noted that Curtis has 140 songs in the Curtom vaults.

Two other albums, featuring Curtis Mayfield present in the Curtom vaults and as yet unissued are, a 1982 / 83 live recording titled " 25th Silver Anniversary " ( which features performances by Curtis, The Impressions and Jerry Butler ) and a live performance, recorded in September 1966 by The Impressions titled ' Live at the Club Chicago '.

Curtis Mayfield was known for introducing social consciousness into African American music as well as R & B and wrote songs protesting social and political equality.

Curtis Mayfield died on December 26, 1999 at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Georgia his health having steadily declined following his paralysis.

* Movin ' On Up-" The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions " ( DVD-2008 )

* Curtis Mayfield Live at Ronnie Scotts-issued on VHS and DVD ( 2002 )

*" Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions perform ' We're a Winner ' " for the WGBH series, Say Brother

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

Lionel Curtis, writing in the imperialist journal The Round Table, wrote: " If the British Commonwealth can only be preserved by such means, it would become a negation of the principle for which it has stood ".

Critic Jon Savage would later say that their singer Ian Curtis wrote " the definitive Northern Gothic statement ".

As Whale biographer James Curtis wrote, the play " managed to coalesce, at the right time and in the right manner, the impressions of a whole generation of men who were in the war and who had found it impossible, through words or deeds, to adequately express to their friends and families what the trenches had been like ".

In addition to his acting on Blackadder, he also wrote and narrated several Jackanory-style children's programmes, encouraged by Richard Curtis.

Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins wrote most of the material, with significant additional contributions from, at various times, Jon Canter, Richard Curtis, Terence Dackombe, Michael Fenton Stevens, Jack ( then John ) Docherty and Moray Hunter, and the various musical elements provided by Philip Pope.

Entertainment Weekly gave the release a " B +" rating and wrote, " Fans will drool over the extras, including some illuminating deleted scenes ( of particular note is an alternate opening detailing Buckaroo's tragic childhood, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as Banzai's mother ) and director Richter's commentary, which reveals some colorful behind-the-scenes battles with studio execs ".

In 1978, Curtis made a departure from his usual macabre offerings, when he wrote, produced, and directed the sentimental NBC television film When Every Day Was the Fourth of July.

Dan Curtis directed it, and Sam Hall and Gordon Russell wrote the screenplay.

For the 2012 FA Trophy final singer songwriter Tracey Curtis wrote and released the song ' A Hundred Years of Football ( and we're off to Wembley )'.

In his farewell column, Curtis Fuller wrote, " Our purpose throughout this long time has been to explore and to report honestly the strangest facts of this strange world and the ones that don't fit into the general beliefs of the way things are.

" Buddy wrote this song, but gave Curtis the songwriting credit for flying down to the session.

Storch some years afterward wrote: " During the thirty years during which Tabuteau taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, he came to exercise a decisive influence on the standards of oboe playing in the whole United States, as well as raising the level of woodwind achievement in general.

" She was a teacher and mentor to the young people of SNCC, highly influencing the thinking of such important figures as Julian Bond, Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Curtis Muhammad, Bob Moses, and Bernice Johnson Reagon, who wrote a song in Baker's honor, called " Ella's Song.

Curtis wrote biographies of Daniel Webster ( 1870 ) and James Buchanan ( 1883 ) as well as a number of legal treatises.

Curtis wrote most of the band ’ s songs that were not covers and was constantly seeking obscure songs for them to cover.

Curtis also wrote " Night Time " for the Ryans with his friend Sharon Sheeley and they collaborated on several other songs.

Martin Curtis wrote a folk-style song about the gold rush called " Gin and Raspberry.

According to Quigley, the leaders of this group were Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner from 1891 until Rhodes ’ death in 1902, Milner alone until his own death in 1925, Lionel Curtis from 1925 to 1955, Robert H. ( Baron ) Brand from 1955 to 1963, and Adam D. Marris from 1963 until the time Quigley wrote his book.

Curtis wrote to Henry W. Halleck after the battle that " the victory at Westport was most decisive ".

* An Interview with Ken Kalish ( by L. Curtis Boyle )-Includes a list of the games he wrote.

" It is the opinion of a majority of the court that the mere grant to Congress of the power to regulate commerce, did not deprive the States of power to regulate pilots, and that although Congress had legislated on this subject, its legislation manifests an intention, with a single exception, not to regulate this subject, but to leave its regulation to the several states ," wrote Justice Curtis for the majority.