Leighton Noble

b. Faye Leighton Jepsen, 25 Dec 1912, USA, d. 5 March 1994, Victoria, Vancouver Isle, English Columbia, USA. Created in NEW YORK, NY, USA, in 1937, Leighton Noble And His Orchestra instantly secured a exclusive engagement at Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook location. The reason might have already been Noble’s earlier big band contacts, including affiliations with Hal Grayson, Orville Knapp and George Olsen. Following the Meadowbrook the orchestra required a reserving at Philadelphia’s Arcadia Ballroom as their next thing on the tour from the main resorts and ballrooms of your day. Vocalists including Johnny McAfee, Edith Caldwell and Margie Lee helped to accompany Noble’s personal performing, as the group gained recording agreements with Vocalion and Bluebird Information. In the 40s the music group leader undertook another career like a film acting professional in Hollywood, as well as for the rest of this decade he limited his music group’s engagements to California to facilitate this. By the first 60s Noble was playing the NEVADA entertainment circuit, before getting leader from the Harrah’s Golf club house music group in Lake Tahoe. He remained there for eight years, before shifting to Vancouver, English Columbia, Canada, in the 70s. He do return to the united states for periodic nostalgia performances, nevertheless, including well-received engagements in the Roosevelt Resort in New Orleans.