EMBASSY Corrections & Additions, etc.

     Since the original publication of the (British) Embassy Singles listing in 1991, only one catalogue number (WB 117) remains unaccounted for, and there has also been some additional EP information. Purchasers of the listing have been kept up-to-date with added supplementary pages, but that information is now included here so that it can easily be updated.
     An almost complete listing of Embassy LPs can be found here - Embassy LPs, 1959-1965. Any further information is welcome.
Guy Pelletier

     The following information is thanks to: Graham Alexander, Dick Anscombe, Barrie Beeching, Allen Dean, Bill Dean-Myatt, Chris Dunkley, Peter Hughes, Albert Hunt, Matthew McNicol, Bea Moorcroft, Theo Morgan, Bill Pallister, Theo Rensen, Doug Talbott, Graham Winsor

     It is reported that the following 45 rpm singles were also pressed at 78 rpm: 378, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384, 387, 388, 389, 393, 394, 395, 397, 398, 401, 403, 405, 406, 407, 410, 411, 414, 415, 419, 420, 421, 422, 424, 427, 428, 433
     To keep up to date with further Embassy 78 rpm "discoveries", please refer to http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/label/embassy/
 

 
     Note the following additional or corrected EP information:

 
Per Andy Whitaker (added Jan-2010): ADD to Listing
EMBASSY EP – WEP 1122 - "Latin-American Piano" by Jules Ruben, his Piano and Percussion
     Andy acquired this very late number EP (it would have been issued in 1965, around the time that Embassy's parent company was acquired by CBS) from a seller in Australia. I speculate that because of the take-over, this Embassy EP never made it to the Woolworth's stores, instead it was sold off as a job-lot to an Australian company (Oriole was always an exporter).
     Andy also says: "I've recently been chatting with Bob Rogers, who was guitarist with The Ted Taylor Four back in the 1960s. The group recorded for Oriole and were also employed on Embassy recordings. Ted Taylor's distinctive clavioline featured on various keyboard-orientated instrumentals, while Bob Rogers confirmed his alter-ego of axe hero Bud Ashton, or as he said, 'One of them'. 
     "He told me other session players performing under that pseudonym included Judd Proctor, Eric Ford and Ernie Shears (the latter responsible for the intro on 'Move It'). He emphatically confirmed that Bert Weedon was never employed in Ashton guise.
     "The same selection of six-stringers also appeared on the Steve Stannard recordings, explaining the very similar sounds and playing styles. It was a case of 'what's in a name' back then, as even the two artist aliases were equally interchangeable on occasion, with Steve Stannard credited on the singles: Man Of Mystery, Rocking Goose, Riders In The Sky and Ja-Da, but with the same titles attributed to Bud Ashton on the LP 'Play Man Play'!"

 
Per Bill Williams (by email, 28-Feb-2014) re WB 507:
     "Hi, Just to let you know that the "B" side of Embassy WB 507 by Paul Rich and Marion Williams is "Opposites", not "Two Similar Kinds Of People". I have the record."

Response from PP: "Thanks for the email. Two separate people gave me the information years back that "Two Similar Kinds Of People" was on one side of Embassy WB 507, and I note this is confirmed on 45cat by someone else. However, I own a copy of the "Blitz!" CD and have played the track "Opposites". "Two Similar Kinds Of People” is part of the lyrics of "Opposites". The clear evidence is that pressings of Embassy WB 507 exist with either "Two Similar Kinds Of People" or "Opposites" on one side, but it is exactly the same recording and song. I suggest "Opposites" is on a later pressing when it was realised that a mistake was made by titling it "Two Similar Kinds Of People".