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Merline Lovelace
Merline is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Merline Johnson ( 1910s), American jazz singer * Merline Pitre (born 1943), American historian Feminine given names {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merline Johnson
Merline Johnson (born c. 1912 or 1918, date of death unknown) 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". Little is known of her life. It is generally believed that she was born in Mississippi, though the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest she may have been born Merline Baker in Callaway County, Missouri. She was the aunt of singer LaVern Baker. Johnson first recorded in Chicago in 1937. One early song was "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". She recorded a few risqué songs. Her speciality was a variety of juke joint blues, with songs such as "Drinking My Blues Away" and "I Just Keep on Drinking", delivered in a tough, unlovable voice. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merline Pitre
Merline Pitre (born 1943) is an American historian and educator. She is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and previously served as president of the Texas State Historical Association in 2011 and 2012. Life and career Pitre was born in 1943 in Opelousas, Louisiana to parents Florence W. Pitre (d. 2014) and Robert Pitre. She grew up in the Louisiana Plaisance community and graduated as valedictorian from Plaisance High School in 1962. She received a B.S. in French from Southern University and an M.A. in French from Atlanta University. She received another M.A. degree and Ph.D. at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 and 1976, respectively. For three years, Pitre was a teacher at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She conducted research at the Library of Congress, National Archives, and the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home. In 1981, she was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, which awarded a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |