Pata Pata

Song 1967

The song Miriam Makeba first recorded with the Skylarks in the 1950s and cut again in 1967 for the American market, when it reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The title means touch touch in Xhosa and named a dance popular in Johannesburg shebeens.

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was performed by

Miriam Makeba (1967) the American recording

is the song of

Johannesburg the title names a dance from the city's shebeens

was written by

Miriam Makeba credited with Jerry Ragovoy, over an earlier melody

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