“All This Is That,” written by Carl, Mike, and Al Jardine, was one of the first songs to come together, as were “He Come Down” and “Marcella,” which (as Keith Badman’s The Beach Boys ...

Just check out the beautiful “Our Prayer” – it is what the Beach Boys were created for. The band’s excursion into rock continued with 1972’s Carl and the Passions – So Tough on which ...

So Tough is the first and maybe last album by Carl and the Passions, the aptly-named once and future Beach Boys. The myserious, reclusive Brian (having endured another aesthetic triumph with the ...

"Here She Comes" and "Hold On Dear Brother" on the twenty-third official Beach Boys album, "Carl and the Passions - 'So Tough'", released in 1972. He is well known in recent years as a long term ...