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Merline Johnson

Merline Johnson

Musician · US

blues

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Vocalion Records

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US

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voice

Identifiers & aliases

Also known as: The Yas Yas Girl

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0000000084845078

Description

American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s

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Merline Johnson was an American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s, billed as The Yas Yas Girl. "Yas yas" was a euphemism for buttocks in hokum blues songs such as Blind Boy Fuller's "Get Yer Yas Yas Out" and James "Stump" Johnson's "The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas".

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