Jack Leon (born Judah Leon Aronoff; 24 April 1905 – 9 March 1967) was a Russian-born British dance band and orchestra leader and conductor, of easy listening and light orchestral music.
Born in Kiev, the son of a Jewish jeweller, he moved with his family to Antwerp in 1906, and then to Deptford in London in 1914.
[1] He formed Jack Leon's Symphonic Dance Band in 1928, and the following year began recording light orchestral music and novelty songs for the Piccadilly label.
[2] During the Second World War, he featured on some 324 editions of the radio programme Music While You Work, the greatest number of any bandleader.
[1] In 1956, he moved to Glasgow, and conducted the Scottish Variety Orchestra, continuing to broadcast several times a week.