Pat Yankee  Pat Yankee (born 1927) (born Patricia Weigum) is an American jazz and blues singer. Yankee was born in Lodi, California and has had a long career as a performing musician. She was also in the 1946 film "It's Great to Be Young" as Anita. She performed in an off-Broadway musical "Basin Street" in 1983 (in the New Federal Theatre). With Turk Murphy