Valerie Pitts, later 'Lady Solti', was a British television presenter who was one of the BBC's original team of presenters from the 1950s until 1967, when she retired.
In 1962, Tony Martin was almost at the end of his five-year contract with the Desert Inn Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. In 1958, when Martin signed the contract, he was the highest paid performer in Las Vegas at US$25,000 per week. Martin had recently released his LP album 'Fly Me to The Moon' (1962).