1556 N. La Brea Ave. Hollywood, CA 90028
Recording sessions for the Beach Boys Friends album were held here at I.D. Sound during the spring of 1968. Tracks either recorded or mixed here include: Busy Doin’ Nothin’, Anna Lee The Healer, Diamond Head, Transcendental Meditation, Be Here In The Mornin’, Wake The World and Meant For You. Brian Wilson also recorded Ron (no relation) Wilson’s I’ll Keep On Loving You/As Tears Go By single here at around the same time.
This 4500 square foot English Farmhouse on Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills was designed by Louis Gould and built in 1950 for the Industrial Auctioneer Milton J. Wershow.
17 years later, in the Summer of 1967, Beach Boys singer Mike Love moved into the house with his wife Suzanne and daughter Hayleigh. In an 2008 L.A. Times article, Brian Wilson remembered collaborating with Mike Love on the Beach Boy hit, Do It Again. “That song really rocks,” he says. “I remember writing that one with Mike. He was living up on Coldwater Canyon. I came over to his house and we sat down and wrote that in about 10 minutes. . . . It was like God wanted us to write that song.”
7450 Hawthorn Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90046.
In 1969 Michael Jackson was a student in Laura Gerson’s 6th Grade class in Room 8 here at the Gardner Street School in Hollywood, CA. During the short amount of time he attended school here, the Jackson Five’s first single I Want You Back was released, along with three other hit singles, ABC, The Love You Save, and I’ll Be There. Within a few months the rookie pop singer left the school for private tutoring.
Twenty years later, the school decided to rename their auditorium after the now world famous pop music icon. And on October 11, 1989 the school held a ceremony to commemorate the name change…
In 2003 after allegations of child abuse by Mr. Jackson, the school covered up his name with plywood boxes.
