The Wailers, often credited as
The Fabulous Wailers, were an
American rock band from
Tacoma,
Washington. They became popular around the United States
Pacific Northwest around the late 1950s and the start of the 1960s, performing saxophone-driven
R&B and
Chuck Berry rock and roll. Their biggest hit was "Tall Cool One", first released in 1959, and they have been credited as being "one of the very first, if not the first, of the American
garage bands."