Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" with Daryl Dragon, hinting towards the sound of his solo debut album, "Pacific Ocean Blue". Other songwriting contributions came from Jack Rieley (two co-credits), Alan Jardine (two co-credits), Mike Love (two co-credits), Tandyn Almer (one co-credit) and Carl Wilson (one co-credit). This LP was mixed for Quadraphonic reproduction (also compatible with stereo). It was to be played back using the now long-extinct Dynaco or EV Stereo-4 decoders, or later, using the "360Surround" matrix decoder built by Stephen Desper and previously included with purchases of his limited-edition book "Recording the Beach Boys". However, the recording (LP or CD) can be played
Passions the first and only soap opera to ever have a live talk show in U.S. history. "Passions Live" continued to air on Thursday nights after the series moved to DirecTV, until October 2007. The live show was also streaming live on the official "Passions" website at NBC.com. "Passions" ended its NBC run on September 7, 2007, and new episodes began airing on The 101 on September 17, 2007, making "Passions" both the first soap opera broadcast on a direct broadcast satellite service and the first series to make such a transition from broadcast television. The series ran Monday to Thursday