Gold Star Studios was a major independent recording studio located in Los Angeles, California. In from 1950 to 1984 it was one of the most influential and successful commercial studios in the world. Founded in 1950 by David S. Gold and Stan Ross, the studio was located near the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood. Nickname City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Government Country State County United States California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area  - City    - Land    - Water  - Urban 1,290. ... California State Route 2; the Santa Monica Boulevard segment is highlighted in red, Alvarado Street is highlighted in green, the Glendale Freeway is highlighted in blue, and the Angeles Crest Highway is highlighted in purple. ... Vine Street is a thoroughfare in Westminster London. ... ...

Gold Star is best known as the home of Phil Spector's famous "Wall of Sound" recordings, which utilised the studio's custom-designed recording technology, hand-built by Gold, and its famed echo chambers. It was also the venue for many important recordings by The Beach Boys including portions of their 1965 LP Pet Sounds LP, the 1966 international #1 hit "Good Vibrations" and recordings for the aborted Smile project. Harvey Phillip Phil Spector (born December 26, 1940) is a highly influential American record producer who turned out some of the best-known popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Wall of Sound is a phrase used to describe the effect created by the music production techniques of legendary record producer Phil Spector. ... The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961 who are widely considered one of the most influential bands in rock and pop music history. ... Pet Sounds is a 1966 album recorded by American pop group the Beach Boys. ... Good Vibrations is a pop single produced by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. ... Smile, which for many years was perhaps the most famous unreleased rock and roll album of all time (sometimes spelled with the idiosyncratic partial capitalization SMiLE, derived from the lettering on the original cover), was intended by its creator Brian Wilson as the follow up to The Beach Boys influential...

The studio was renowned for its famous echo chambers. According to Gold, who designed the chambers after years of research and experimentation, they were built in an area of about 20' x 20' and were complementary trapezoids 18 feet long. The walls were thick, specially-formulated cement plaster on heavy isolation forms. Entry into the chambers was through a series of 2' by 2' doors, and the opening was only about 20 inches wide and high!

Another of Gold's innovations was a small transmitter that allowed him to broadcast mixes so that they could be picked up on a nearby car radio, which was especially important to recording artists in the era when AM radio was the dominant broadcast medium.

The studio was the venue for hundreds chart-topping recordings by scores of leading pop and rock artists including Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochrane, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Sonny & Cher, Buffalo Springfield, Duane Eddy, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, The Ronettes, Dick Dale, The Righteous Brothers, Iron Butterfly, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Joan Jett, Cheri Currie, Meat Loaf, The Champs, The Baha Marimba Band, Bobby Darin, The Who, The Monkees, Tommy Boyce, The Band, The Go-Go’s, The Ramones, The Association, Art Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Maurice Gibb. Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), better known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican-American born in Los Angeles, California, became the first Mexican–American rock and roll star. ... Eddie Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an early American rockabilly musician. ... 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It was also widely used by music, film, television, radio and Broadway artists including Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Fain and Dimitri Tiomkin and it was the recording ‘home’ of the pioneering ABC-TV prime-time pop show Shindig. Jazz artists who recorded there include Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Oscar Moore, The Hi-Los and Louis Bellson. Frank Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was a composer and lyricist. ... Johnny Mercer John Herndon Johnny Mercer (November 18, 1909 - June 25, 1976) was a lyricist and composer. ... Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg, June 17, 1902 - December 6, 1989) was an Jewish-American composer of popular music. ... Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Russian: , Dmitrij Zinovevič Tëmkin) (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a film composer and conductor. ... The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ... Shindig! was the name of a music variety show which was aired every week on the American ABC network from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. ... Gerry Muligan Gerald Joseph Gerry Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz musician, composer and arranger best known for his baritone saxophone playing, but also played the piano and the clarinet. ... The Chet Baker Monument in Amsterdam Chesney Henry Chet Baker Jr. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 03:14, 8 August 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni (born in 1924), who performed as Louie Bellson, is an American jazz drummer. ...

The studio closed in 1984.

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