The backing band on half the recordings are members of The Hollies, augmented by session players.

Eight of the twelve songs featured are credited to L. Ransford, the songwriting pseudonym of The Hollies' Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash.

Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones are also purported to play on the record as session musicians.

Also, in an interview with Nash on David Dye's World Cafe, it was claimed Reggie Dwight (a.k.a.

The last track on Side One of Two Yanks in England, "Pretty Flamingo", was a UK No.1 hit single for Manfred Mann at the time the recording of the album began (May 1966).