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This is wrong.[edit]

Bob Marley and the Wailers is the band which succeeded The Wailers. This article gives a muddled and unclear picture. It misleads. Bob Marley was a member of The Wailers, a band he created with his childhood friends McIntosh (Tosh), Braithwaite, Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and others. When they split, Marley proceeded with the band Bob Marley and the Wailers, a group with Marley as the leader, but which also included musicians from the precursor bands The Wailers, and the Upsetters. Go to your local library and you will find at least one book which will educate you on this. Even the well-written Wikipedia article on Bob Marley repudiates what this article and The Wailers (disambiguation) claims. We should make it clear that The Wailers was from 1963(ish) to 1973 and Bob Marley and the Wailers was from 1973 to Marleys death in 1981. Yes, Bob Marley has always been the lede singer/songwriter of these bands, but it is an after contract to assume he was always a solo act. Buy claiming that Bob Marley and the Wailers is the same entity as The Wailers, one denigrates the contributions of Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, The Upsetters and the I Threes to the genre of Reggae, and what they meant for the music of Reggae's main figure, Bob Marley. Ezeu (talk) 13:56, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm researching Bob Marley at the moment, and using Wikipedia as my starting point, and I agree that I am a little unclear on this point. The merge was done on the basis that while still The Wailers the band had released several albums under the name Bob Marley and the Wailers: Talk:Bob_Marley_and_the_Wailers/Archive_1#Merger_proposal, and that both bands shared musicians and had the same lead singer and main songwriter, so the change was no more than what happens in any band, and as Marley kept the name the Wailers, there is some continuity. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 10:27, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What about Picture on the Wall by Carl Dawkins and the Wailers? Is that to file under Bob Marley, too? Is it original research to transcribe information from a record label? 2600:6C44:107F:A047:59E4:18A4:B7C9:DA8C (talk) 20:00, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree totally! So many others credit BWM when it should really be The Wailers instead, when referring to that pre 1973 period. Many of the Wailers albums are now incorrectly labelled as being by BMW, including Catch A Fire and Burnin. Some artists are credited with playing for BMW prior to 1973 as well! It is specific. Finally! 115.189.86.40 (talk) 08:50, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And therefore for the same reason, BMW were never a ska band. 115.189.86.40 (talk) 09:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, The Wailers left Scratch to record with Kong to produce The Best of The Wailers. Not the other way around as stated in the article. 115.189.86.40 (talk) 09:14, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is Bunny Wailer or Livingston?[edit]

The article is confusing because it switches back and forth. I'm reading along, about how the band is made up of Marley, Wailer, and Tosh, and then I read that Tosh and Livingston leave the band. Huh? Who's Livingston? I thought it was Bunny Wailer? Oh, yeah, it is. Wailer is Livingston's stage name, and that's noted early in the article, but then the article mostly talks about Wailer before abruptly switching back to Livingston.

The article should be more consistent, but I'm too lazy to edit it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JGWatts (talk • contribs) 18:52, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

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[Added by SilkTork] Date: Autumn 2018

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 16:01, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wailing Wailers[edit]

I thought I heard on the BBC Radio 4 programme Last Word that the band were originally called "The Wailing Wailers". This names does not appear to be used in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rollo August (talk • contribs) 21:52, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music 209[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 October 2022 and 15 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mo.saeed11 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by LesseyChase1101 (talk) 14:52, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bob Marley was not American. Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:03, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]