He was satirized as Pee Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland Band in Tex Avery's animated MGM cartoon Dixieland Droopy (1954).
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Pee Wee Hunt (May 10, 1907, Mount Healthy, Ohio – June 22, 1979 in Plymouth, Massachusetts), born Walter Gerhardt Hunt, was a jazz trombonist, vocalist and band leader.
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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 World War II.
William Holman Hunt | Leigh Hunt | John Hunt Morgan | The Hunt for Red October | Hunt Valley, Maryland | Richard Morris Hunt | Hunt | Helen Hunt | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup | E. Howard Hunt | Wild Hunt | Joe Hunt | Jim Hunt | Jefferson Hunt | James Hunt | Thomas Hunt Morgan | National Hunt racing | Witch-hunt | The Hunt of the Unicorn | Sea Hunt | Roger Hunt | Rex Hunt | Miles Hunt | Marsha Hunt | Charles Cooke Hunt | The Hunt for Red October (film) | Pee Wee Russell | Lois Hunt | Bonnie Hunt |
Many years later he regained the copyright, having lost out on the royalties earned by the publisher through the many successful interpretations of that rag by artists like Louis Armstrong (1927), Bennie Moten (1927), Duke Ellington (1931), and Pee Wee Hunt (1948).