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The Jolly Boys

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Mento band from Port Antonio, Portland, whose roots trace to the Navy Island Swamp Boys of 1945; long the parish's leading mento group, they reached world-music audiences from the late 1980s with singer Albert Minott out front and later served as the house band at GeeJam.

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The Jolly Boys official history; Jamaica Observer; NPR World Cafe.

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The Jolly Boys — Take Me Back to Jamaica

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The Jolly Boys, the Port Antonio mento band formed in 1945.

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The Jolly Boys — Touch Me Tomato, Port Antonio

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The Jolly Boys filmed in Port Antonio, where the band has worked since the 1940s.

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Take Me to Jamaica: the never-ending story of the Jolly Boys (Reggae University 2019)

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Panel documentary on the Jolly Boys.

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