Merline Johnson

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

United States

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,024

Total plays

7,903

Merline Johnson (born c. 1912) was an African American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s, billed as The *Yas Yas Girl. Little is known of her life, but she is thought to have been born in Mississippi. She was the aunt of rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker. She first recorded in Chicago in 1937, on songs including "Sold It To The Devil". Over the next four years she recorded over 90 songs including "Don't You Make Me High", "I'd Rather Be Drunk", and "Love with a Feeling". <a href="https://w

via Last.fm · Merline Johnson

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,822x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,261x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,612x

4. Optical Constants of the Noble Metals

   · 1972 · cited 18,232x

5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

   · 2008 · cited 17,856x

via Crossref · CC0