I grew up in that house in 1072-75 with Carol & I was her daughter Louise’s bst friend ! That photo was in livingroom on far right side of house when walking in courtyard👍

It's a shame these very well done documentaries only get 20,000 views and all the stuff that is total crap will get millions.Very good playlist here!

I am convinced...having lived through the 60's...and wandered Laurel Canyon that it wasn't the artists, the singers, the song writers ...the music. It was the energy of the Canyon that drew them, released their energy into the universe by way of song.....time changed in the Canyon. The Canyon and Time nurtured these wonderful people, their energy.. Am not surprised the "polertguise" chased Marlyn Manson out of the Canyon..and not surprises at the reports of who the Canyon holds dear.continues to hold space for....those spirits who chose to remain.. To say Laurel Canyon is magical is alluding to just the tip of the iceberg...a time in space none other that changed lives, and indeed by osmosis, our world. I love this series..

On August 2, 1968 I saw Jim Morrison and The Doors in concert in Cleveland, Ohio. That summer I had turned 16 years old. I wore my first pair of pierced earrings to the concert and a black Nehru style dress. I remember when Jim asked for a light for his cigarette. Memorable black leather pants!

I'm glad you put John Phillips on blast! From everything I've heard and read about him, he seemed like a total jerk.. especially the way he treated Cass Elliot. Anyway, another great episode!

Brings back memories of my days living in Laurel Canyon in the 70's. Magical

Dear Bill, I am an almost 68 years old Boomer guy, from Venice (Italy, not Cal !). I discovered by chance your Laurel Canyon series : the people you tell the stories were (and still are !) my musical coming of age heroes. What a wonderful work have you done ! I would like do share some thoughts inspired by your incredible videos : 1. From your footage the beauty of the places shines through: bird's songs, the heath and the smell of vegetation's I can imagine reminds me of the most wonderful mediterranean places we have here, like Portofino or Cinque Terre (but how bad are the ubiquitous garbage bins !!!); 2. I can't stop thinking how much waste of talents and of creative time and opportunities happened around LC in those years, due to "difficult" personalities unable to stay together, but the greatest waste of human resources has been the addiction to hard drugs and booze. Some colleague of mine has worked in Californian Universities, all of them were absolutely shocked by the people easiness in taking drugs in recreational moment AND in everyday situation. How many geniuses we have lost (and still are loosing) to drug abuse in USA ? Why ? This is a real cancer in your society (but here in Italy too, I everyday see drug addict gather in my usual parking lot, waiting for some crack smuggler...); 3. What a sadness, in the end of one of the last videos, seeing the Strip walkways littered by homelesses. We have much the same problem here, but all is due to illegal migrants from Africa or Middle East (Afghan and Syrian the most). We in our young years hope for a better world, with more justice, peace and equity : what has gone bad ? 4. anyway, you brought me happiness and a remind of hope and peace : thank you a lot ! anto

I'm a 40 something gen x'er who grew up in the late 80's-90's era when there was a lot of antipathy and cynicism toward the 60 hippie boomer generation, but I never cared for contemporary culture and what my peers thought, rejected powder puff hair-metal and consequently, wholly immersed my self in the music of The Doors, Byrds, Love, Janis, Airplane et.al and devoured countless books and all the requisite minutiae available in those hazy, pre-internet days. Though my heart lies more with post-punk/darkwave these days, my love for 1960's music hasn't waned. The whole history/culture/aesthetic of Laurel Canyon and it's underlying darkness is still endlessly fascinating. Keep up the good work!

Sir, I simply can't stop watching these episodes! I am shocked it doesn't have more views.

Out of all the bands that lived up there the doors were on another level.i think that rocked the boat some

What a rabbit hole you have taken me down I saw the first one watched it now I'm on just about to go on six or seven right in a row ...thank you

the doors were/are by far the best band of that era (in America)....their musicality and groove put them on a different level

That was fantastic. I was completely captivated. 👍🇬🇧

The fence and the cat....very smart observation!!

i spent last two days tending to sore throat, head cold, and i want to thank u billy for this compilation...you have done a great job, loved every minute of it, stellar, thank u

The view is spectacular, but those houses hugging the hills are a scary site to me knowing about the mudslides that happen.

Watching from the UK. Enjoying this series, thanks. Can’t believe how quiet the streets are with all those colourful characters past and present. No one walking about either🤔.

Wow beautiful houseof Carol's bet all of the housed are beautiful! Amaziing im hooked on this channel amaziing to see. Fan of the 60s ..from Australia 🦘🐊. 2023.

This just came across my feed and I watched it on my TV. So interesting! I really enjoyed it. I subscribed and am looking forward to watching all videos on this channel. Thanks!

I grew up in the 60s while all this was happening. I've learned a lot I didn't know on this little series. Thank you.

Must visit laurel canyon before it's to late

Very cool Billy, thanks!

Glad the window issue finally got cleared up....

Awesome video.....thanks !! PS: Around 1984ish I was in Vegas and attended the opening night of The NEW Mamas and the Papas at The Sands Hotel. John, Denny, McKenzie Phillips and Elaine McFarlane (took Cass' place, she was from the pop group Spanky and Our Gang). The table I had was next to a table where Michelle Phillips sat with some friends. Also John was on probation for his drug bust and McKenzie Phillips had just been fired from the TV show "One Day at a Time" for cocaine use. One last thing, Scott McKenzie was in the band and sang his hit (written by John Phillips) "Are you going to SAN FRANCISCO. Ticket was I think, maybe $25 and a $20 tip got me a table in the front row, next to Michelle's table. WHAT A NIGHT...it was by luck I was walking by The Sands that day and got tickets.

Windows and doorways are racking due to shifting foundations. This is like the Oakland hills in Alameda county. Shacks built of STEEP hillsides. If there is a plot of land people will build a house on it just to live up in the hills. You think about wild fires and earthquakes. They are finally cutting back trees and brush to make things easier. The high peaked roofs that resemble "faerie" houses resemble the ones demolished near Olivenhain and Leucadia.

I've to LA several times, but never managed to get to Laurel Canyon. Thanks so much for this. I have a fantasy of driving up there in a convertible with LA Woman blasting on the speakers. RIP Jim.

thank you for this great video Jim Morrison is the greatest this takes me back to better time a long time ago..................

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️VERY NICELY DONE! 👍🏼😎

Watching these videos from a freezing U.K. They certainly transport you to another time and place in music history. Very uplifting, informative and totally addictive. Thank you. When I reach the last one I will probably go right back to the beginning again.

Thank you for these! I'm busy binge-watching my way through them. Your research and recording skills are to be applauded too. It's a very well balanced and well made series, such a joy to watch. Much respect 🙏

What a wonderful series, im hooked! Please don’t hold back with your options, im loving this 👏🏻💋

Cats are comfortable in their own environment. With dogs, they can easily join their humans everywhere.

Great video, I love how this basically ended up being a tribute to Carole. My parents were her age and had Tapestry. I was mesmerized by the album cover as a kid. I heard I Feel The Earth Move on the radio today. Coincidence? 🤨 Thanks friend 🌞🌷

That was nifty detective work about Carole's cat! Who would have thought to contradict the actual photographer? This earth-shattering mystery is finally solved, ha ha. Thanks, Billy Columbo. It's quirky stuff like this that helps to makes this series so endearing, along with the solid research. Looking up the provenance of existing houses to determine exactly where Jim Morrison was standing and what he would have been looking at when he wrote 'People are strange'? OMG, the things I didn't know I needed to know! Btw, the instrumental version surprised me with how pretty and beguiling the melody is without Jim's typically strong lyrics.

Ok Billy, what can I say about this one? The Carole King house!!!!! Iconic! Tapestry is one of my fav albums of ALL TIME and it was so cool to see this house up close and personal. The stories it could tell! Loved the part about the cat too. Thanks again for all the cool stories. 😀

Know the area well. I used to live at 8960 & 9067 Crescent by the lookout. I miss it very much.

Chynna Phillips Baldwin is still in recovery from the drug-fueled chaos of her upbringing at the hands of Papa John, and possibly Michelle. Sounds like things were just as bad as far as the relationships she was exposed to. The idea of total personal freedom is romantic and tantalizing, but the reality of it is disastrous for children and other vulnerable people left in the wake of that kind of lifestyle. Children need stability, and stability imposes limits on parents’ lifestyles.

love this series of videos, what a time it was!

Absorbed in your series but had to jump out just to say that Mary Aster wasn't a silent film star. She was the female lead in The Maltese Falcon! A liberated woman was Mary. Made a lot of men hide when her diary became public. Great fun.

Outstanding Billy.

I really didn't much about Laurel Canton but now I believe it was enchante

Great series. I'm 65. I grew up in NE Ohio. Watching the LC series really brings up a lot of memories. Thank you Billy.

Wonderful documentaries, thank you! As a Boomer so young back then … seeing and hearing all this now, especially Carole King brought up some deep old emotions from that time … thank you for showing the back stories to these amazing artists whose music defined my 20 something life … can’t wait to find Joni … as she did the most for me.

One of the best albums ever written.

Thank you for the pics, the info. So much interesting and intriguing stuff. Love it, love it, love it. Some of us might never make it to these places. With you, it’s almost better than in person.

Really really enjoyed this one. Your fulfilling a dream of mine. I lived there and drove the streets, but wanted more. Love it.

In ‘98’ I was working in Sherman Oaks & was given a somewhat tour of all these areas…but just quickly driving through & no details…I never realized until now where exactly I was, I just figured it was a cool place with cool houses in the hills. We did see a very young Brad Pitt roaming around though...at least that’s what they told me & I had no clue who that was at the time. Now I realize why we were driving around there…showing me where all the famous people lived. I’m from Michigan, far from LA.

Married at age 17 and #1 hit at 18!

carol klein king is the queen of pop. no other woman in the music business has written more great songs. she is my queen.

So well conceived!!! 🌳 🐦

Thank you so much for connecting the dots and bringing this extraordinarily rich history of Laurel Canyon alive. I spent a lot of time in and around that area in the late 70s- early 80s pursuing my own musical passion but never knew even a tiny fraction of the details presented in this series. I gotta say, Michelle Phillips was/is an absolute stunner and I suspect if she batted her lashes at any red blooded male in their 20s it would be really tough to say no and walk away. That level of attraction is both a blessing and a curse, and was at the center of much of The Mammas & the Pappas turmoil. We are fortunate to have the great songs they produced during their time together as a band. Cheers!

I just found this series and can't stop watching it! Your voice, stories and descriptions are wonderful! Such a high quality production! Looking forward to all your videos from you and your team! Fascinating Musical History! Love it!💕Thank you!

Super Billy! Have always wanted to know the Carole King story, personal to me. In such a crazy industry/time she was a rare one to keep her feet on the ground. Real musician, didn't she later mentor lots of other artists, she was like a mother of other musicians. Such a famous canyon!

Thanks for trip down memory lane. I was in my teens in the 60's. and just graduating high school. I still have the Doors album as well as Carol King and also Mamas and Papas album. The Beatles who were also huge, at the time,, were sadly on their way out in the late 60's. Was Interesting seeing the houses where all those iconic groups hung out.. Loved it.

Amazing they could build right on the street!

I’ve been through Laurel Canyon many times, but I never knew these places were there!

I'm friends with a person who was in that scene, a musician in a band at that time in L.A. and he lived on Lookout Mtn. 65-67. He doesn't talk much about it.

The Doors title pulled me in,first time viewer. Excellent narration, photos and camera work. I subscribed !

So well done! very professional and all your facts are checked! great great job! thanks for sharing! Perhaps you can just reach out and ask Carole...

Great series of videos. Very much appreciated.

Really good coverage Billy! I am enjoying all of them. Thank you!!

Episode 5 was just as great as all of the previous ones. I am tempted to binge watch the whole series but I'm holding back, I want to make them last😄😄

Great analysis about the birth of a classic song..and a few other interesting facts in American music history.

Hey! This video is a year old so I didn’t know if you’d see my previous comment or not. Since you did I regret that I didn’t mention how much I enjoy your videos. They are so well done and you are an excellent presenter. You have a pleasant voice and articulate well. (There are a lot of videos, where I like the topic, but not the speaker so much. So, I can’t watch.) I’ve watched several a couple of times just because I find them calming and low key pleasurable.

I’d like to think of myself as a music buff, and to come across your documentary series is truly compelling. I live in Michigan now and lived in southern Ca. but my eldest are planning a trip there soon so viewing this will help tremendously. Thanks for your ( playing around ) hard work arranging it all to preview.

Love this series

Excellent.

What a great little series you have put together. Very informative as always. Thanks for the bell when Ep 5 was ready. I wonder, does San Francisco and the flower power era deserve your treatment ? They even have similar houses on hills.

This is a fantastic endeavor your doing. Thank you .

This blows my mind that John and Robby were roommates in the 60's and I ❤the doors for 29 years since 1994

Another great video Billy, thanks for sharing all of this, I would love to visit the area one day. The stories you pick out are brilliant. Can't wait for episode 6! Cheers

Your videos are the business! Great presentation, social history, knowledge, opinion, fact... I always say that the 60's is the greatest era/decade of music. Yet I listen to far, far less than I realised. You've inspired me to get searching for all the artists you mention. Again... Many, Many thanks!

This is so memorable the Hollywood hills area . I worked at Hollywood and La Brea in 1979 by the hungry tiger restaurant and I used to stop by piece o pizza 🍕. Had a piece lately . I worked at Holiday Spa 7080 Hollywood Blvd

"People are Strange", probably one of the most brilliant, insightful, songs of all time, soft and uncritical. Let's face it, we all have a deep, hidden side to ourselves, which we don't share with anyone.

Thank so much for your stories.It make me look back on my life back.I am 71years old now .I never live in LC.But it brings me back to the great fun I had.Parties and weed lots of that.You tell it so fine and true too.

I had the awesome experience of working in LA,Hollywood and surrounding areas for about 2 months a few years ago as a telephone lineman. Sometimes even to this day I can’t believe this actually happened it was just a surreal experience. One particular day I was driving around,most of the time not even knowing where I was and boom there was the Hollywood Bowl. Amazing

I recently found your Channel and enjoy this too much! Loving Carol King. Great place yo Live, Laurel Canyon. Greetings from Spain!

Enjoyed all your hard work and dedication.

These are amazing. Thank you

I appreciate your attention to detail …

AY CARAMBA ! The seamy side of the MUSIC BIZ !! Thanks for the video from Eve G.

Thank you , this was so good. Really emotional at the end.

Just was there last month!! Bucket list for sure ✌🏼🦎👑

Very well narrated and interesting.

I went on Google earth and followed your path. I love it!

Such interesting personal stories and the music is great.

John Kay (Steppenwolf) lived in Nichols Canyon, adjacent to Laurel Canyon and just down the road from Frank Zappa, from 1969 to 89. John's daughter Shawn was friends with Frank's kids Moon & Dweezil. The cover photo for Steppenwolf's third album, "At Your Birthday Party", of the band sitting at a kitchen table of a burned out, house was taken in Laurel Canyon at the burned out, house of Canned Heat's, Bob Hite.

The area has so many intertwined stories of famous or well known people. I like Carol Kings version of Take a Giant Step And Pleasant Valley Sunday that the Monkees recorded pretty much directly right over her demo

i have always loved the music of the mamas and papas, and i knew there was subterfuge.

A story I read about John Phillips is that after performing on stage at the Monterey Pop festival,John was served legal papers for non-payment of child support and alimony. Certainly a buzz kill for him!

Mary Astor was very popular in the 30s and 40s. She was in The Maltese Falcon.

Great series, so entertaining and informative, I was 6 years old in 1968, when the better part of all this great music was being created, but I had older siblings that were into all this and had a ton of albums that would play in my house around the clock. I will never forget the day one of my sisters came home with Tapestry! Thanks for your work. BTW, where is episode 6?

great!

Another enjoyable episode. The photography & background music add so much to the overall effect. You've obviously put a lot of work into this & it shows. I'm not complaining that you haven't mentioned P.F. Sloan (I didn't expect you to!), but just for the record, according to his memoirs, he had a house (patterned on an English medieval castle) in Wonderland Avenue (or possibly Drive). He also mentions that Phil Ochs had a place off Lomita Drive. Final point: you're the best I've come across on KZfaq for responding to comments. Whether you'll manage to sustain that if & when your subscriptions increase, who knows, but for now, it's appreciated.

Hey Billy 👋 really enjoying your content and have subscribed as I've just recently discovered your content and what drew me at first was The Cass Elliot ones as of recently have more interest in her and actually purchased her book Dream a Little Dream of Me via Ebay plus an avid Sharon Tate fan and been following the Manson Saga on other KZfaq channels and now yours as it gives more insight of the Era and what went down at Cielo Drive, Waverley Drive and at Topanga Canyon with Gary Hinman and how freaky that Linda Rhondstant lived next door to him but luckly wasnt home when that horrific murder happened 😳🤦‍♂️💔😪 anyways just wanted say love your content and keep them coming abd keep up the awesome work your doing. ❤👏👌👍😊

Wow, great video, Thank you! Had not idea Carole King wrote "will you still love me tomorrow". Please keep them coming. I really enjoy your style of story telling combined with the music history/locations.

Great stuff bro!

Again: really nicely done and informative. Looking forward to the next episode!

Jill Gibson was the girlfriend of Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, and later Lou Adler. I remember seeing her in a Hullaballoo episode where she had a folk duo thing going on. She could sing, and Michelle Phillips backed her up on that, but I believe John felt she didn't have any chemistry with the band. Knowing John, it was probably because he couldn't get into her pants. I've also read from numerous sources that she is still in the mix on quite a few songs on that 2nd album (uncompensated). Remember, they were still mostly using 4 tracks in those days. She's had her own art and photography thing going on since the 70s.

Great series. Want to go back to L.A, rent a car and drive around up there 👍