- She placed six albums in the UK Albums Chart between 1974 and 1980, including four that reached the Top 20.
- Martell had surgery to replace a valve in her heart, and in March 2008 underwent a triple heart bypass operation.
- She had released a number of standards in the 1970s on the Pye record label and drew crowds at cabarets.
- Although out of the limelight for a while nursing her sick mother, Martell returned to the music industry, and toured in the UK.
- She began singing at the age of 11 with her eldest brother's band. After his untimely death, she decided to pursue a career in music as a tribute.
- She had a number one UK single with "One Day at a Time" in 1979. Her follow-up singles failed to chart, so she has the dubious honour of being classified as a one-hit wonder, though this should be viewed in the context that she was successful on the albums chart and had a BBC TV show which was also successful.
- Her cover of the song "One Day at a Time", written by Marijohn Wilkin and Kris Kristofferson, reached the top of the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November 1979.
- Martell was a prominent figure in Scottish Ladies Rugby and played until the age 21 when an injury called a halt to her promising career as a female rugby monger.
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