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like Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers,

The Drifters, The Platters.

So there was a recruitment

process taking place.

Myself and Robert started

to put the group together.

And then here comes this tall, dark,

as they would say,

handsome dude named Peter,

and he has

this guitar knowledge.

And from Robert, you hear Robert say,

"Play guitar? You serious?"

So he goes give him

the guitar right away.

So it's four-string steel,

but Peter tune the four-string,

and he's just like that.

On First Street

is a music street.

We had three or four places

on First Street that we rehearse,

and they were rehearsing

like every day.

At the time,

it was Bob, Peter, Bunny.

We used to call ourselves

"Juveniles." "Brothers in the Ghetto."

Where we used to go to rehearse,

they'd say,

"You come from a wailing environment

where people always bawling.

And, well,

you should be named the Wailers."

This train it is bound to glory

This train

This train is bound to glory

This train

This train is bound to glory

This train don't carry

- As far as the Wailers' harmony,

and the building of the Wailers musically,

Joe Higgs is the responsible person.

Having his own career,

he decided to take the group up

as a project.

His policy was that great stars

sometimes get messed up...

when they get afraid, you know,

when they get nervous on stage.

So he said that...

if we went to the cemetery

at, say, 2:
00 in the morning...

and sang for those people,

then we can't be afraid

when we hit the stage.

And we went with Joe,

sat on the graves, played.

Several times we do it until he thought

we were brave enough now.

Gather together

Be brothers and sisters

We're independent

We're independent

Just about the time

of the independence,

the Jamaican musicians

wanted to have a music...

that they can call Jamaican music.

- Well, Jamaica came up

with a unique rhythm.

I didn't think it was deliberately done.

I think it was an attempt to play

something, and it came out that way.

It became known as reggae,

but it started off as ska,

which was putting all the accent...

on a different beat than what is normally

where the accent is.

It would be on the off beat

instead of the on beat.

Ska developed out of American

music that we were exposed to...

on top of our Jamaican

indigenous music,

such as mento, calypso, Kumina.

Simmer down

You lickin' too hot

So simmer down

Soon you'll get dropped

- We were at a bar one evening.

And one of the guys, them says to us,

"Listen to this group."

And they punched the jukebox.

And the song was called "Simmer Down."

And no more other tune

play on that box...

the whole time we were there

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