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Jolly Boys (The)

Genre : Band
Principal country concerned : Column : Music

In winter of 1946, Errol Flynn purchased Navy Island for the princely sum of US$80,000. For the next decade that small swath of land, not even 100 yards from the beaches of Port Antonio, became the berthing place for Flynn's yacht Zaca, and the staging point for his unending parties that is today the stuff of legend. The entertainment Flynn featured most often in those days was a small local group called the Navy Island Swamp Boys which consisted of Noel Lynch on guitar, Moses Deans on banjo and "Papa" Brown on rumba box. The mentos, calypsos and rumbas they played were the perfect soundtrack for Flynn and company's bacchanalian excesses (...)

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