Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" to be released, or re-released, as a single album. A Warner/Reprise catalogue number, MS 2090, had been assigned to this single disc release, but nothing came of it. The album was released as a standalone album in Europe on Reprise Records. Carl and the Passions was Brian Wilson and Mike Love's high school band. This was the first album released under a new deal with Warner Bros. that allowed the company to distribute all future Beach Boys product in foreign as well as domestic markets. In 1971, Carl Wilson, who served as the group's de facto musical director at this
The V.I.P.s (band) Teenages, The Ramrods); and Mike Kellie (drummer) (1967). When Emerson left in early 1967 to form The Nice, Harrison, Ridley, Grosvenor and Kellie changed their name to 'Art', and released one album, "Supernatural Fairy Tales", produced by Guy Stevens, covering Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth" and Felix Cavaliere's "Come on up". The band then disbanded, with all four members of the group's final line-up forming Spooky Tooth with American musician Gary Wright later that same year. The V.I.P.s (band) The V.I.P.s were a British R&B musical ensemble formed in Carlisle, Cumberland, (North West England) in late 1963, out of