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Pat McMinn
12+ albums
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Pat McMinn (Patricia Stella McMinn, 1926 - 21 March, 2018) was a New Zealand singer. Patty McMinn grew up in Taumarunui. Her parents played at dances around the King Country, father on piano, mother on violin. Her brothers -- who were sixteen and seventeen when she was born -- already had their own dance band. After touring New Zealand as a nine year-old dancer in J. C. Williamson's White Horse Inn company, McMinn continued dancing and singing lessons in Auckland. As a fifteen-year-old from Freemans Bay she sang `Alexander's Ragtime Band' on 1ZB in the children's radio show 'Neddo's Jolly Pirates.' Her grandmother put her name down for a Dixieland vocalist competition where she was the youngest entrant and she won the competition, two nights a week performing at the Trocadero, a block north on Queen Street cabaret at io/6 per night. McMinn would sing several items during the evening and, in the breaks, knit and embroider in the dressing room. Soon she was performing six nights a week with Johnny Madden's band. Among the songs she sang were 'Paper Doll', 'Moonlight Becomes You' and 'I'll Walk Alone'. By day McMinn had been manpowered to work in a Freemans Bay sack factory, after which she taught dancing. The Trocadero gigs included a floorshow in which Pat sang and danced accompanied by the piano-accordionist Toni Savage. McMinn released more than 25 sides for Tanza, including several of the label's biggest hits. . Usually, McMinn's sunny pop songs were accompanied by the h
top songs
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Too Fat For The Chimney
1,5402A Hippopotamus For Christmas
6323I Want a Hippopotimus For Christmas
1514Too Fat for the Chimney - 2018 Remaster
995I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
446Opo The Crazy Dolphin
287Dancing In My Socks
138Opo, The Crazy Dolphin
109Too Fat for the Chimney (feat. The Crombie Murdoch Trio)
1010Twenty Tiny Fingers
8albums
The Complete 50S Recordings
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The Complete 50S Recordings (Recorded by Pat McMinn 'The Stardusters' and the Crombie Murdoch Trio)
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Kiwi Nostalgia - 25 Hits Of The 50's
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Kiwi Nostalgia - 25 Hit's Of The 50's
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The Complete 50S Recordings: Recorded by Pat McMinn 'The Stardusters' and the Crombie Murdoch Trio
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Pohutukawas & Pavlova (60 Years of Kiwi Christmas Songs)
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New Zealand Nostalgia
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The Complete 50S Recordings (Recorded by Pat McMinn 'The Stardusters' and the Crombie Murdoc
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Kiwiana Goes Pop [Disc 01]
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The Complete 50s Recordings: Recorded by Pat Mcminn 'the Stardusters' and the Crombie Murdoc
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Early Kiwi Country Gold - Archive Series Vol. 3
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Merry Christmas New Zealand