[3] The label's releases mostly consisted of double A-side singles that were cover versions of then-current or predicted UK Top 20 hits,[1] and it was not unusual for different artists or contrasting pop styles to appear on either side of a record.
[3] Included in this standard three-hour session was the initial studio set-up time, before any actual songs were recorded, and a mandatory musicians' coffee break.
[3] As a result, Embassy artists tended to be very experienced big band or session singers, who would also regularly broadcast live on BBC radio.
The recording sessions usually took place on a Thursday, so that the cover version discs could be rushed out into the stores by the following Monday to compete with the real thing.
[5] Maureen Evans went on to have a hit for Oriole with "Like I Do" and Barbara Kay was one of the members of the Carefrees, who released the novelty record "We Love You Beatles" in 1964.
[9] Instrumental recordings would feature whatever session musicians were booked for that day, so the names used for the label, such as Bud Ashton, the Beatmen and the Happy Knights, did not imply any particular participants.
[2] Initially, 39 albums were released by the label in October, 1973, including titles by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Sly & the Family Stone, Fleetwood Mac, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, among others.