- … Read Full Bio ↴There are or have been - at least - two bands named The Wailers:
- The legendary Jamaican reggae band (founded as a ska group 1963, and became a Rastafarian reggae band in 1968), renamed Bob Marley & The Wailers in 1974, which are still active led by bassist Aston Barrett after Marley's death in 1981.
- The Fabulous Wailers, a rock and roll and garage band from the USA, active 1958-1969, first led by John Greek, replaced in 1960 by Rockin' Robin Roberts.
1) Bob Marley & The Wailers have together sold in excess of 255 million albums worldwide. Since they are extraordinary popular also in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America with big markets for pirate copies the total amounts of albums sold has been estimated to over 1 billion. In England alone, they've notched up over 20 chart hits, including seven Top 10 entries. In USA on the other hand, Bob Marley & The Wailers reached superstar status only after Marley's death, with the album Legend , focusing on the person Bob Marley but not on the band. Outside of their groundbreaking work with Marley, the Wailers have also played or performed with international acts like Sting, the Fugees, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, and Alpha Blondy, as well as reggae legends such as Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Burning Spear. As the greatest living exponents of Jamaica's reggae tradition, the Wailers have completed innumerable other tours, playing to an estimated 24 million people across the globe. They have also been the first reggae band to tour new territories on many occasions, including Africa and the Far East.
Their nucleus formed in 1969, when the vocalist group "The Wailers" (formed 1963 by Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh) requited the talented Barrett brothers: bassist Aston "Family Man" and drummer Carlton (writer of well-known Marley songs like "War" and "Talking Blues", 'sound-maker' of more Marley songs, developer of the one drop style in reggae music) played on hits such as Lively Up Yourself, Trenchtown Rock, Duppy Conqueror, and many more besides. Inspired by Rastafari and their ambitions of reaching an international audience, this is the line-up that pioneered roots rock reggae, and signed to Island Records in 1971. Bunny and Peter left two years later. It was at this point that the in-demand Barrett brothers - whose rhythms also underpinned innumerable seventies' reggae hits by other acts - assumed the title of Wailers, and backed Marley on the group's international breakthrough album, Natty Dread. Under Family Man's musical leadership, they then partnered Bob Marley on the succession of hit singles and albums that made him a global icon, winner of several Lifetime Achievement awards, and Jamaica's best-loved musical superstar.
Drummer Carlton "Carlie" Barrett was murdered 1987, leaving his brother as the main beneficiary of the Wailers' mantle. Subsequent line-ups have revolved around Family Man, who is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest bass players. Modest and unassuming, he was present on all of those unforgettable performances by Bob Marley & The Wailers from the seventies. Family Man continues to be the main axis of the current Wailers - a group that's one of the last, great reggae institutions, yet which refuses to live off past glories. That's because Family Man represents tried and trusted roots authenticity and, along with the Wailers, injects fresh excitement into a show that continues to attract enthusiastic audiences from around the world.
2) The Fabulous Wailers were an American rock band from Tacoma, Washington. Formed around 1958, they are often considered the first garage rock group. They performed a hybrid of saxophone-driven rhythm and blues and Chuck Berry rock and roll.
Five 45s (four released in 1959, including Tall Cool One, and one in 1960) and an LP release, The Fabulous Wailers (released December 1959 on Golden Crest Records), put the Wailers on the national scene. Their 1961 cover of Louie Louie, which they recorded as a backing band for singer Rockin' Roberts, was the first to use the trademark 1-2-3, 1-2, 1-2-3 riff. Their version inspired other groups from the Seattle area, most notably the The Kingsmen of Portland, Oregon, to record the same song. The Fabulous Wailers' influence established the Pacific Northwest area as a center for musical innovation and the home of a long string of regional favorites playing a kind of raunchy, amateur, yet passionate, form of rock and roll, such as The Sonics, with whom they exchanged various band members and who recorded on The Wailers own Etiquette Records label.
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."
The group was formed – originally as The Nitecaps – in 1958, by five high school friends:
John Greek (27 October 1940 – 6 October 2006) – rhythm guitar, trumpet
Richard Dangel (1 December 1942 – 2 December 2002) – lead guitar
Kent Morrill (2 April 1941 – 15 April 2011) – keyboards, vocals
Mark Marush (15 August 1940 – 9 August 2007) – tenor sax
Mike Burk (b. 1942) – drums
In late 1958, the group recorded a demo of an instrumental written by Dangel, Morrill and Greek, which found its way to Clark Galehouse of New York based Golden Crest Records. He liked the track and had it re-recorded by the band in Lakewood in February 1959; its title "Tall Cool One" was apparently suggested by Morrill's mother. Released as a single, it reached # 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 24 on the R&B chart. The band made the cross-country trip to New York to record an LP, The Fabulous Wailers, which was released in December 1959 and featured two vocals by Morrill as well as instrumentals. They also appeared on Dick Clark's nationally televised American Bandstand, and toured the east coast. A second instrumental from their first recording session, "Mau-Mau", made # 68 on the Billboard pop chart, but their third single, "Wailin'", failed to make the chart.
The band decided to return to the Northwest, rather than staying in New York as their record label wished, and they were dropped from their contract. Around the same time, they added lead vocalist "Rockin' Robin" Roberts (Lawrence Fewell Roberts II), a charismatic frontman who had previously been the singer with rival Tacoma band the Bluenotes. John Greek left the group in acrimonious circumstances, and was replaced by bassist John "Buck" Ormsby (Seattle, October 29, 1941 - October 29, 2016). Ormsby, Morrill and Roberts then formed Etiquette Records and, in 1961, the label released its first single, a cover version of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie". For contractual reasons the single was credited to Roberts, but was performed by the whole band. Their recording became a local hit and was distributed nationally by Imperial Records, but did not make the national chart. However, its style, with its trademark 1-2-3, 1-2, 1-2-3 riff, inspired other groups from the Seattle area, most notably the Kingsmen of Portland, Oregon, to record the same song.
The Wailers continued to perform locally and, according to Morrill, one of their biggest fans was the young Jimi Hendrix, then starting to perform guitar. The band performed both with and without Roberts, who studied at the University of Washington, the University of Puget Sound, and Oregon State University, eventually achieving a masters degree in biochemistry. They also occasionally featured teenage girl singer Gail Harris, notably on the live album The Fabulous Wailers at the Castle, recorded in 1961, which has been described as "undoubtedly one of the most influential albums in Seattle rock & roll history." In all, the band recorded and released four albums on their own Etiquette label between 1962 and 1966, as well as a succession of singles. They also helped instigate the recording career of The Sonics, whose first two albums were issued by the label, and helped begin Jini Dellaccio's career as a rock'n'roll photographer when they hired her to shoot cover photos for their album Wailers, Wailers, Everywhere.
Mark Marush left The Wailers in 1962 and was replaced by Ron Gardner, who also handled lead vocals; Dangel and Burk left in 1964 and were replaced by guitarist Neil Andersson and drummer Dave Roland respectively. Continuing to perform live as well as recording, the band added a trio of girl backing singers, known as the Marshans. Also in 1964, "Tall Cool One" was re-promoted by the Golden Crest label, and again made the Billboard pop chart, this time peaking at # 38. In 1965 Roberts made his final recordings with the group, and, in 1967, guitarist Neil Andersson was replaced by Denny Weaver. Roberts was killed, aged 27, in a car crash in late 1967.
The band split up in 1969, by which time Kent Morrill was the only remaining original member. Morrill, Dangel and Ormsby, with other musicians, reunited as The Wailers for occasional concerts from the 1970s onwards. In 1979, they joined with Burk, Gardner, and Gail Harris to play a reunion show.
Later activities
Ormsby re-established the Etiquette label in the mid-1980s, and issued a Wailers compilation, The Boys from Tacoma, in 1993. The Wailers' song, "Out of Our Tree", was featured in the 1998 CD version of the Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era collection. Several of the Wailers' tunes were also covered by The Ventures, and the two bands released an album together, Two Car Garage, in 2009 to celebrate their 50 years in existence.
Ron Gardner died in 1992. Richard Dangel died of an aneurysm in 2002. John Greek died in 2006, Mark Marush in 2007, and Kent Morrill died of cancer on 15 April 2011. Buck Ormsby died in 2016.
Satisfy Our Souls
The Wailers Lyrics
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'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' (don't rock my boat)
Oh, please don't you rock my boat (don't rock my boat)
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' (don't rock my boat)
I'm telling you that, oh, oh-oh,
I like it, like it this (I like it like this, I like it like this)
So keep it steady, like this (I like it like this)
I like it (I like it like this) I like it like this (I like it like this, I like it like this)
I like it like this, ooh yeah! (I like it like this)
(Satisfy my soul) You satisfy my soul (satisfy my soul)
You satisfy my soul (satisfy my soul)
Every little action (satisfy my soul)
There's a reaction (satisfy my soul)
Oh, can't you see what you've done for me, oh, yeah
I am happy inside all, all of the time
When we (bend) bend a new corner
I feel like a (sweep) sweepstake winner
When I meet you around the corner (round the corner)
You make me feel like a sweepstake winner (a sweep, a sweepstake winner)
Whoa, child, can't you see, you must believe me
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see, why won't you believe me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm calling, calling (calling, calling, calling, calling)
When I meet you around the corner,
Oh, I said, baby, never let me be a loner
And then you hold me tight, you make me feel all right
Yes, when you hold me tight, you made me feel all right
Whoa, honey, can't you see, don't you believe me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm callin', callin'
Can't you see, why won't you believe me
Oh, darling, darling, I'm callin', callin' (calling, calling, calling, calling)
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
That's all I want you to do, that's all I'll take from you
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
In "Satisfy My Soul," Bob Marley makes an appeal to his lover to maintain the stability of his relationship, asking her not to "rock his boat." By using the metaphorical image of a boat, he reveals that he desires a steady, peaceful and stable relationship. He wants his lover to understand that he likes things the way they are, and doesn't want any major changes that could potentially affect their relationship negatively.
Throughout the song, he emphasizes his love for his partner and how she satisfies his soul with her every little action. He creates vivid imagery of sweeping new corners with her, and how she makes him feel like a "sweepstake winner" whenever they meet. He delivers his words in a pleading yet soulful tone, at times almost desperate, imploring her to believe him and satisfy his soul.
Marley's "Satisfy My Soul" has been a timeless and captivating reggae classic since its original release in 1978. It has become a fan favorite, with its groovy rhythm and catchy melody creating an irresistible appeal that resonates across generations. The song is a testament to Marley’s talent as a songwriter and his ability to articulate complex emotions in simple and catchy lyrics.
Line by Line Meaning
Oh, please don't you rock my boat (don't rock my boat)
Please don't upset my life or change my situation
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' (don't rock my boat)
Because I'm content with my current state and don't want any disturbance
I'm telling you that, oh, oh-oh,
I'm being honest with you
I like it, like it this (I like it like this, I like it like this)
I'm pleased with the way things are going
So keep it steady, like this (I like it like this)
Please maintain the status quo
And you should know, you should know by now
I expect you to understand
I like it (I like it like this)
I'm satisfied with the present circumstances
I like it like this (I like it like this, I like it like this)
I'm happy with the way things currently are
I like it like this, ooh yeah! (I like it like this)
I'm really enjoying how things are going
(Satisfy my soul) You satisfy my soul (satisfy my soul)
You fulfil me emotionally
Every little action (satisfy my soul)
Every small thing you do for me makes me happy
There's a reaction (satisfy my soul)
Your positive actions towards me have a corresponding positive effect on me
Oh, can't you see what you've done for me, oh, yeah
You've made a positive impact on my life
I am happy inside all, all of the time
I'm constantly content and at ease because of you
When we (bend) bend a new corner
When we move forward to a new phase in our life
I feel like a (sweep) sweepstake winner
I feel like I've just won a large sum of money
When I meet you around the corner (round the corner)
When I see you again
You make me feel like a sweepstake winner (a sweep, a sweepstake winner)
Your presence makes me feel like I've won the lottery
Whoa, child, can't you see, you must believe me
Please trust that I'm being sincere with you, my love
Oh darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
I'm trying to get your attention, my love
Can't you see, why won't you believe me?
I'm trying to make you understand and trust me
When I meet you around the corner,
When we next see each other
Oh, I said, baby, never let me be a loner
Don't leave me alone
And then you hold me tight, you make me feel all right
Your embrace brings me comfort
Yes, when you hold me tight, you made me feel all right
Your touch makes me feel better
Whoa, honey, can't you see, don't you believe me?
I'm emphasizing how important you are to me and pleading for your trust
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
All I truly desire is to be emotionally content with you
That's all I want you to do, that's all I'll take from you
All I want from you is for you to fulfil me emotionally
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul
Make me emotionally content, my love
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: BOB MARLEY
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@Hayyden
I was conceived to Bob Marley
I was chillin' inside my mum listening to Bob Marley.
I grew up as a kid to Bob Marley
I got high to Bob Marley
I got laid to Bob Marley
I married my wife to Bob Marley
I have a beautiful daughter named Marley. <3
Let's just say Owen Wilson ain't got shit on Marley & Me.
@eduardosoares2016
Oh, please don't you rock my boat
(Don't rock my boat)
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rocking
(Don't rock my boat)
Oh, please don't you rock my boat
(Don't rock my boat) No, no
'Cause I don't want my boat to be rocking
(Don't rock my boat)
I'm telling you that, oh, oh, wa, whoa, wa, whoa
I like it, like it like this (I like it like this, I like it like this)
So keep it steady, like this (I like it like this)
And you should know, you should know by now
I like it (I like it like this), I like it like this
(I like it like this, I like it like this)
I like it like this, ooh yeah (I like it like this)
Satisfy my soul
You satisfy my soul (Satisfy my soul) Oh yeah
Satisfy my soul
You satisfy my soul (Satisfy my soul)
Every little action (Satisfy my soul)
There's a reaction (Satisfy my soul)
Oh, can't you see what you've done for me, oh, yeah
I'm happy inside, all, all of the time (Woah)
When we (Bend), bend a new corner
I feel like a (Sweep), sweepstake winner
When I meet you around the corner ('Round the corner)
You make me feel like a sweepstake winner (A sweep, a sweepstake winner)
Whoa, child, can't you see? You must believe me
Oh, darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see? Why won't you believe me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
(Calling, calling, calling, calling)
When I meet you around the corner
Oh, I said, baby, never let me be a loner
And then you hold me tight, you make me feel all right
Yes, when you hold me tight, you made me feel all right
Whoa, can't you see? Don't you believe me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
Can't you see? Why won't you believe me?
Oh, darling, darling, I'm calling, calling
(Calling, calling, calling, calling)
Satisfy my soul
Satisfy my soul
Satisfy my soul
Satisfy my soul
That's all I want you to do
That's all I'll take from you, satisfy my soul
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@CB-yu2tn
I BADLY want a movie about Bob Marley!
(Edit in 2024) I know its out now and i cant wait to watch it!
@rafael123loek
Marley (2012), go watch it, it's great
@BraveQueencowan
Awesome idea, sure it will happen
@CB-yu2tn
@@rafael123loek Its a documentary, not a real movie
@rafael123loek
@@CB-yu2tn still a good watch
@jb681131tube
@@CB-yu2tn Because a documentary is not a real movie ??
@emekaosisi1288
Boy finds solace in brotherhood and the worship of the most high, boy finds purpose in good hard work, boy finds his strength one night in the street(Lion of Zion) and finally boy meets girl and finds love. A beautiful video showing the blessed thing to do on this wicked world. Stay close to nature, love your fellow man and don’t forget to pray and give thanks to the Most High.
Blessing be upon us, the children of the Sun.
@DomDom0990
Emeka Osisi ❤️❤️❤️
@MeNoWorryYouNoWorry
Bless up mun
@mattcamacho781
JAH BLESS YOU BROTHER!!!!