Pee Wee Hunt: Begin The Beguine

SONG: Begin The Beguine / Volver a Empezar
ALBUM: Cole Porter Ala Dixie Pee Wee Hunt
YEAR: 1958*
COMPOSER: Cole Porter
PERFORMER: Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra (Arrangements by Billy May)

~~Pee Wee Hunt (May 10, 1907, Mt. Healthy, Ohio -- June 22, 1979 in Plymouth, Massachusetts), born Walter Gerhardt Hunt, was a jazz trombonist, vocalist and band leader.

Hunt developed musical interest at an early age, since his mother played the banjo and his father played violin. 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. He joined Jean Goldkette's Orchestra in 1928.

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. He returned to the West Coast music scene in 1946. His "Twelfth Street Rag" was a 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).

At age 72, Hunt died after a long illness in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where his Casa Loma partner Glen Gray also lived.~~

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[Rene6228]

musi que jamas se olvida

[MrCorolla96]

esto si que es musica.

[tromboneferraz]

Alguem tem essa partitura ou sabe na onde q tem?

[tromboneferraz]

A musica é linda ..............eo ritimo é mais ainda.......perfeito tres feras da musica......noossa esse trombone que som lindo

[TheFroen]

wunderful... 

[humbertolvv]

A mi viejo le gustaba este tema, se las bailaba todas las de este gran maestro, genial MrMaymac, gracias

[2000flute]

very beautiful dance music...

muy bonita la música de baile

gracias!

[quever100]

Exquisito, gracias por el tema saludos desde México =D

[chkjns]

NICE one to add to my 1958 playlist! You can sure hear the sound of Billy May in this one! Added it to my Billy May list, too. My 700 playlists can take you back to any year since 1900 and play up to 120 songs continuously for any of 400 artists or dozens of genres. Come visit my musical time machine! chuck