Carole King — Tapestry Sessions, A&M Studios, Hollywood

Tapestry — Carole King's 1971 masterpiece and one of the best-selling albums in history — was recorded at A&M Studios at 1416 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood, produced by Lou Adler with arrangements by King and a band that included James Taylor, Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, and Charles Larkey. The sessions were intimate and quickly completed; King had been writing professionally since the early 1960s as half of the Goffin-King songwriting team, and Tapestry was the moment she claimed her own voice as a recording artist rather than a supplier of songs to others. 'I Feel the Earth Move,' 'It's Too Late,' 'You've Got a Friend,' 'So Far Away,' and 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow' (previously recorded by the Shirelles) were all on the album.

King had moved to Laurel Canyon in the late 1960s after the end of her marriage to Gerry Goffin, and the Canyon community — Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne — gave her the personal and professional context for Tapestry's confessional singer-songwriter approach. The album spent 15 weeks at number one and remained on the charts for six years, selling 25 million copies worldwide and winning four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year.

A&M Studios occupied the former Charlie Chaplin studio lot at La Brea and Sunset, a complex of Spanish Colonial Revival buildings that is now the home of The Jim Henson Company. The original studio spaces have been preserved as part of the production facility. The building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.