Leighton Noble, born Faye Leighton Jepson (December 25, 1912 – March 5, 1994) was an American vocalist and bandleader active during the swing era. He was also an actor and television presenter. Noble's parents divorced when he was young, and he took his stepfather's surname. He learned piano as a child and put together a band called the Blue Blazers while a student at Pasadena High School. He matriculated at Pasadena City College and led a larger band on campus, but after two years of study, he won a singing contest at Los Angeles's Cocoanut Grove Ballroom and quit school. The contest was run by Phil Harris, and the prize was singing with Harris's orchestra for a week; Noble parlayed this into a job singing for , and soon after was working with George Hamilton, , and George Olsen. In 1935 Noble was hired by Orville Knapp as lead vocalist of his orchestra, but Knapp was killed in a plane ...
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