Commander
Cody
- Fire Island
was, and still is for the rich, the gay elite and the day-tripping party animal.
George Frayne IV was a lifeguard at Fire Island State Park (pre-Robert Moses
State Park). At night, he sang with The Lorenzo Lightfoot Athletic Club And
Blues Band in a small club on Wantagh Avenue. The band included a guitarist
named Jerry Margolis, now a top Hollywood attorney. Frayne had a penchant
for amusing titles, he named Washboard Willie And The Supersuds of Rhythm
and, later, during college, he learned to play harmonica and renamed himself
Commander Cody.
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