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The Wailing Wailers is a Ska act. Their sound grew out of Burt Bacharach, William Bell and Junior Braithwaite. Those roots explain a lot about how The Wailing Wailers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bob Marley & The Wailers, Lester Sterling, Willi Williams, Ronnie Davis and The Versatiles, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jerry Dammers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 9 connections around The Wailing Wailers, reaching back through Burt Bacharach and forward to Jerry Dammers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Wailing Wailers is the 1965 eponymous debut studio album by the Wailers, later known as Bob Marley and the Wailers. Released on the Studio One label, the album is a compilation of various recordings made between 1964 and 1965 by Neville "Bunny" Livingston, Robert Nesta Marley and Peter McIntosh. It compiles what Clement Coxsone Dodd considered the best Wailers recordings from this period. They were accompanied by the Studio One backing band, the Soul Brothers.
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The Wailing Wailers grew out of Burt Bacharach, William Bell and Junior Braithwaite, shares an orbit with Bob Marley & The Wailers, Lester Sterling, Willi Williams and Ronnie Davis, went on to shape Jerry Dammers. 9 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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