Valerie Masters

b. 24 April 1940, London, England. This red-headed pop singer from London's East End sang during her childhood in the local underground station during air raids and later became the private secretary to the Mayor of Stepney. She received her big musical break when she replaced Marion Ryan in the popular Ray Ellington Quartet. Masters made her first recording, ‘Ding Dong', for Fontana Records in 1958 and was first seen on television on the Hughie Green Show. She was given her own series on Radio Luxembourg in 1959, which ran for over two years. Her only chart success came in 19...