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 R&B and Chuck Berry rock and roll.

They released 5 singles (four released in 1959 and one in 1960) and one album, The Fabulous Wailers (released 1959 on Golden Crest Records). Originally an instrumental band, they had a national hit with Tall Cool One in 1959 while still in high school. They then went to the East Coast for some appearances, including the Alan Freed Show and American Bandstand. Unhappy with the way they were being handled, they returned to Tacoma and formed their own label Etiquette Records.

Their 1961 cover of Louie Louie, which they recorded as a backing band for singer Rockin' Roberts, inspired other groups from the Seattle area, most notably the Kingsmen of Portland, Oregon, to record the same song. The Wailers' influence established the Pacific Northwest area as a centre for musical innovation and the home of a long string of regional favourites playing a kind of raunchy, amateur, yet passionate, form of rock and roll.