BBTIMELINE

1912-1960
1912	Donald Charles Jardine born October 24th, Toledo OH
1915	Virginia Louise Loxley born May 21st, Youngstown OH
1917	Murry Gage Wilson born July 2nd, Hutchison KS Audree Neva Korthof born September 28th, Minneapolis MN
1918	Milton Edward Love born May 4th, Los Angeles CA
1919	Emily Glee Wilson born November 30th, Hutchison KS
1922	The Wilsons move to Los Angeles.
1928	The Korthofs move to Los Angeles.
1937	Donald Jardine marries Virginia Loxley, September 11th, Lucas OH
1938	Murry Wilson marries Audree Korthof, March 26th, Los Angeles CA. Their first home is at 613½ West 8th Street. Milton Love marries Emily Wilson, September 30th, Los Angeles CA
1941	Michael Edward Love born March 15th, Los Angeles CA. Murry & Audree move to 8012 S. Harvard Blvd.
1942	Brian Douglas Wilson born June 20th, Los Angeles Benjamin Baldwin (aka Bruce Arthur Johnston) born 27th June, Chicago IL Alan Charles Jardine born September 3rd, Lima OH Shortly after Brian's birth, Murry leaves Southern California Gas to work at Goodyear Tire & Rubber.
1944	Dennis Carl Wilson born December 4th, Los Angeles
1945	March 7th - the Wilson family purchase a house at 3701 W 119th St, Hawthorne (the house was demolished in the mid 1980s during the construction of I-105). spring - Murry looses his left eye in an accident at Goodyear. Shortly after his return to work in summer, he moves to Garrett AiResearch.
1946	Carl Dean Wilson born December 21st, Los Angeles
1950	summer - Murry leaves Garrett and goes into business with his brother Douglas leasing heavy machinery.
1951	Murry becomes friendly with Hite & Dorinda Morgan, owner of Guild Music. They will later publish some of his songs.
1953	Murry's sister - and Mike's mother - Glee arranges a private Christmas concert showcasing Murry's songs; the highlight is Brian singing a song of Mike's, "The Old Soldier".
1954	Murry leaves his brothers company and, borrowing $20,000 against his mortgage, founds the A.B.L.E. Machinery Company (Always Better Lasting Equipment), located at 6825 S. Santa Fe Avenue. The company imports lathes from Binns & Berry Brothers of Halifax, England.
1955	The Jardine family moves to California.
1956	May - sometime between this date and March 1960, A.B.L.E. moves to 4969 East Firestone Blvd. in Southgate.
1957	spring - Brian auditions unsuccessfully for Art Laboe's Original Sound label after an introduction by Dorinda Morgan. November - Brian becomes friends with the starting fullback of his football team - the Hawthorne High Cougars - after the latter breaks his leg as a result of Brian, at quarterback, calling one play and executing another during a game on the 7th. His name is Alan Jardine, singer in folk group The Islanders. The other members are Gary Winfrey and Bob Barrow. (For further details of Alan's pre- and early BB history, click here)
1958	June - for his sixteenth birthday, Brian is given a Wollensak tape recorder. Co-opting Carl, Murry & Audree, he makes his first four-part harmony recordings. Mike graduates from Dorsey High and begins working part time for his father's sheet metal business, as well as working the night shift at a gas station. fall - Carl starts taking guitar lesson from a neighbor, usually identified as John Maus, later of the Walker Brothers (although there is now reason to doubt this belief; other sources refer to him as John Moss. He also taught David Marks).
1960	spring - Brian and some friends perform the campaign song (a BW rewrite of "Hully Gully") for a student body president candidate, Carol Hess. This leads to further appearances, for which Brian uses Mike & Carl alongside a friend from the earlier 'group'. Carl has reservations, so Brian dubs the combo Carl And The Passions. Later incarnations will feature Keith Lent, Bob Barrow and Bruce Griffin (this lineup opened for the Four Preps at a school assembly). According to music teacher Fred Morgan (no relation to Hite), Brian flunks part of his senior year music course by handing in, instead of the sonata required, a melody that would become "Surfin'". June - Brian and Alan gradate from Hawthorne High. August - at Audree Wilson's suggestion, Alan & Gary Winfrey approach Hite Morgan with a tape they've made, the poem "The Wreck Of The Hesperus" set to music they've composed. The Morgans are building their studio and say they'll call back. September - Brian attends El Camino Community College majoring in psychology with additional music classes. Alan attends Ferris State U. in Big Rapids MI, having followed his parents back to the Midwest (according to his mother, he declined a football scholarship at Pepperdine U. in California). fall - On being told Mike's girlfriend is pregnant, his mother Glee throws him out of the house.
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