Pee Wee Hunt
Walter Gerhardt "Pee Wee" Hunt (May 10, 1907 – June 22, 1979) was an American jazz trombonist, vocalist, and bandleader. Hunt was born in Mount Healthy, Ohio. He developed a musical interest at an early age, as his mother, Sadie, played the banjo and his father, Edgar C., played violin. He had a younger sister, Marian, and younger brother, Raymond. The teenage Hunt was a banjoist with a local band while he was attending college at Ohio State University, where he majored in Electrical Engineering, and during his college years he switched from banjo to trombone. He graduated from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He joined Jean Goldkette's Orchestra in 1928. Hunt was the co-founder and featured trombonist with the Casa Loma Orchestra, but he left the group in 1943 to work as a Hollywood radio disc jockey, before joining the Merchant Marine near the end of World War II. He returned to the West Coast music scene in 1946. His "Twelfth Street Rag" was a three million-selling, number one hit in September 1948. He was satirized as Pee Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland Band in Tex Avery's animated MGM cartoon Dixieland Droopy (1954). His second major hit was "Oh!" (1953), his second million-selling disc, which reached number three in the Billboard chart. At age 72, Hunt died after a long illness in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Hunt and his wife, Ruth, had a daughter, Holly, and a son, Lawrence. |
Birth and Death Data: Born May 10, 1907 (Mount Healthy), Died June 22, 1979 (Plymouth)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1930 - 1943
Roles Represented in DAHR: trombone, vocalist
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Recordings (Results 126-150 of 282 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 63338 | 10-in. | 2/9/1938 | My Bonnie lies over the ocean | Glen Gray Orchestra | vocalist, instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 63339 | 10-in. | 2/9/1938 | You go to my head | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 63340 | 10-in. | 2/9/1938 | Dear old southland | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 64961 | 10-in. | 1/27/1939 | Last night a miracle happened | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 64962 | 10-in. | 1/27/1939 | Riverboat shuffle | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 64963 | 10-in. | 1/27/1939 | Boneyard shuffle-1 | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65012 | 10-in. | 2/13/1939 | Could be | Glen Gray Orchestra | vocalist, instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65013 | 10-in. | 2/13/1939 | I won't believe it | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65015 | 10-in. | 2/13/1939 | This night (will be my souvenir) | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65017 | 10-in. | 2/13/1939 | Honolulu | Glen Gray Orchestra | vocalist, instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65035 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | Sunrise serenade-1 | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65036 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | I promise you | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65037 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | Heaven can wait | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65038 | 10-in. | 2/14/1939 | (Gotta get some) Shut-Eye | Glen Gray Orchestra | vocalist, instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65044 | 10-in. | 2/20/1939 | Ay ay ay | Casa Loma Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65045 | 10-in. | 2/20/1939 | Rockin' chair-1 | Louis Armstrong ; Casa Loma Orchestra | vocalist, instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65046 | 10-in. | 2/20/1939 | Lazybones | Louis Armstrong ; Casa Loma Orchestra | vocalist, instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65063 | 10-in. | 2/25/1939 | Washboard blues | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65064 | 10-in. | 2/25/1939 | Little old lady | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65065 | 10-in. | 2/25/1939 | Lazy river | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65066 | 10-in. | 2/25/1939 | Moon country | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65180 | 10-in. | 3/15/1939 | Star dust | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65181 | 10-in. | 3/15/1939 | One morning in May | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65182 | 10-in. | 3/15/1939 | In the still of the night | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone | ||
Decca | 65183 | 10-in. | 3/15/1939 | Georgia on my mind | Glen Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, trombone |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Hunt, Pee Wee," accessed October 1, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/106359.
Hunt, Pee Wee. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 1, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/106359.
"Hunt, Pee Wee." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 1 October 2024.
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LCNAR: Hunt, Pee Wee - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084054
Wikidata: Pee Wee Hunt - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066931
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/42025528
MusicBrainz: Pee Wee Hunt - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ee7eb94a-f9cf-4016-8d0a-cea5e220181a
ISNI: 0000 0001 1984 9205 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000119849205
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