- Father of Celia Lipton.
- From 1941 to 1946, he served with the Royal Artillery and Royal Signals Corps, rising to the rank of captain.
- Popular British dance band leader, trained as a classical violinist. He began his career as a sideman with the orchestras of Billy Cotton and Ambrose. Lipton organised his own band after 1931, based at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London (resident there until 1967). The band made prolific recordings (primarily for Decca and Columbia) and regularly broadcast for BBC radio from 1933.
- The recordings with his band were made from 1932 through 1941, and the band's radio broadcasts were made at Grosvenor House where the band was in residence.
- His daughter Celia Lipton, who later made a career as an actress and singer, joined his band as vocalist in the 1940s. Other singers who performed with the ensemble included Anona Wynn, Primrose Hayes, Les Allen, and Chips Chippindall.
- When living in Edinburgh in the early 1920s he began playing in the band led by Murray Hedges, before joining the Billy Cotton Band in 1925 and making his first recordings. He left Cotton to form his own dance band in 1931, and the following year became the resident bandleader at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
- His band's first hit song was "I'll See You In My Dreams".[1] Later successful tunes included "Just Dance And Leave The Music To Me" and "Sweet Harmony".
- Heformed at the end of the 60's his own entertainment agency, and served as musical director for various venues and cruise ships.
- Lipton was a British dance band leader, popular from the 1930s to the 1960s when he led "one of the most polished of the British Dance Bands.
- His band started recording in 1932, first for Zonophone and then Decca, and made regular appearances on BBC radio after 1933.
- Among his musicians were instrumentalists Ted Heath, George Evans, Billy Munn, Harry Hayes, Bill McGuffie, Freddy Gardner, and Max Goldberg.
- During World War II, Lipton was a member of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Signals.
- He also recorded with Ambrose's orchestra in the mid-1920s.
- After serving in the forces, he returned to the Grosvenor House Hotel, and continued to lead the orchestra there until 1967.
- He learned the violin as a child before joining cinema orchestras providing the accompaniment to silent movies.
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