He also wrote songs for many of the other popular performers of the period, including Alfred Vance, Herbert Campbell, Jenny Hill, Annie Adams, and Fred French. Hunt wrote over 50 songs performed by Leybourne, including 'Awfully Clever', 'Up in a Balloon', and 'Don't Make a Noise Or Else You'll Wake the Baby'. He developed a partnership with lion comique George Leybourne, with Hunt regularly visiting Leybourne's house and playing tunes on the harmonium until Leybourne, lying in bed upstairs, shouted out that he liked one of the tunes.

His first success came with 'The Organ Grinder', sung by George Leybourne and by Arthur Lloyd and was soon followed by 'Poor Old Uncle Sam', a Civil War song successfully performed by Scottish singer Tom MacLagan, and 'The German Band', sung by Lloyd. He started to write songs for music hall performers, and was one of the first to write both words and music - previously words had usually been written to fit existing tunes. He spent some time in South Africa before returning to England, where at one time he was the manager of the Canterbury Music Hall on Westminster Bridge Road. He was born in Finsbury, London, and taught himself to play piano and harmonium as a child. George William Hunt (c.1837 – 1 March 1904), known in later life as ' Jingo' Hunt, was an English writer of music hall songs, best known for 'MacDermott's War Song' also known as the 'Jingo Song'.

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