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Pee Wee Hunt
  • Birth Name:
    Walter Gerhardt Hunt
  • Date of Birth:
    May 10, 1907
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    Mount Healthy, Ohio, USA
  • Place of Death:
    Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  • Date of Death:
    June 22, 1979
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

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    Pee Wee Hunt
    • He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
    • Pee Wee 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 the war.
    • He joined Jean Goldkette's Orchestra in 1928.
    • The teenage Hunt was a banjoist with a local band while he was attending college at Ohio State University, and during his college years he switched from banjo to trombone.
    • At an early age Pee Wee developed musical interest since his mother played the banjo and his father played violin.
    • Walter Gerhardt Hunt was a jazz trombonist, vocalist and band leader.

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