Effective period / Period of releases: 1946 - 1975

Members: Dick Dale (2), Harold Loeffelmacher, Ken Grebnick, Vernon Bottenfield, Der Cammack, Elmer Scheid, Christy Hengel, Lester Schuft, Bill Brown (30), Spike Haskell, Johnny Gag, Emil Milbrett

The Six Fat Dutchmen was a polka band formed around 1932 by Harold Loeffelmacher in New Ulm, Minnesota, U.S.A.. The band was known mostly for playing the "Oom-pah" style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia. They enjoyed a 14-year recording career with RCA Victor, during which they recorded 800 songs. After parting ways with RCA, the band recorded for Dot Records for ten years. In 1990, three years after the death of Harold Loeffelmacher, he and his Six Fat Dutchmen were inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame.