Passions" as a way to entice his unwilling brother into the group. However, Carl himself denied that such a group ever existed. The inner sleeve included a group portrait featuring all the members together, including Brian. However, owing to his absence during the album's recording, his visage had to be doctored into the photo. In the U.S., Carl and the Passions was originally packaged as a two-disc set, paired with Pet Sounds (1966), at no additional cost to consumers. Mike Love explained that the group had recently bought the rights to five of their out-of-print Capitol albums for seven years. Love said, "The thing we want to do is a combination of bringing everyone up to date and giving everyone a chance to get an old collectors' item that has been discontinued by the record company. Americans have to write to England if they want copies of albums like Smiley Smile." He credited the idea to Warner/Reprise. Music journalist Peter Doggett states that the bonus record was originally planned to have been Smile. "That threat brought Brian Wilson down from his bedroom, and Pet Sounds was reissued instead." Release Released on May 15, 1972, Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" reached number 50 in the U.S. The release was accompanied by lead single "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone", which failed to chart. A second single, "Marcella", released on June 26, also failed to chart. According to music historian Keith Badman, the Pet Sounds pairing provoked "an unfavourable comparison with the landmark 1966 LP and contribute[d] to the album stalling [...] in the US charts." It became the band's worst-selling on Reprise. In the UK, where Carl and the Passions was issued as a standalone disc, the album reached number 25. From May 5 to June 3, the group toured Europe and the UK. The core members were supported onstage by guitarists Ed Carter and Billy Hinsche, keyboardists Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille, as well as a horn section and two additional percussionists. Their set list included "Here She Comes" and "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone". They appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test on May 16 and Top of the Pops on May 31 (aired June 8). Elton John and Keith Moon joined them onstage at a concert in London. At the end of the tour, the band reconvened at their