Syl Johnson

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Syl Johnson (born Sylvester Thompson in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on 1 July 1936; died 6 February 2022 ) was an American blues and soul singer and music producer. His most successful records included "Different Strokes" (1967), "Is It Because I'm Black" (1969) and "Take Me to the River" (1975). "Different Strokes" has been sampled by number of rappers including Wu-Tang Clan, Hammer, and the Ghetto Boys. Blues guitarist and singer Jimmy Johnson, and bassist Mack Thompson, are his brothers. <a h

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5 total works indexed

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

   · 2016 · cited 31,680x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 20,929x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,518x

4. Optical Constants of the Noble Metals

   · 1972 · cited 18,057x

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

   · 2008 · cited 17,480x

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