The Black Bull's Jack Sperling was probably this fellow - a big band drummer who played with just about everyone, and ended up on the Tonight Show orchestra. As wikipedia notes: he was the drummer on the original "Peter Gunn" theme. (The pianist? John Williams.)

Vicki Carr had been at the Carolina Pines, which sounds like a resort in the south - but it was a restaurant in LA.

Knights Arms, Queens Arms - steak, I assume. Steak and shrimp.

The 90s sounds fun: "Beauteous feminine cupbearers." Where Victorian mores meet ananchronistic pre-Renaissance-Fest descriptions!