Who Was The Fourth Wailer & What Happened To Him?

The most popularly known members of the Wailers are Bob, Bunny and Peter. The identity of the fourth member Junior Braithwaite is rarely known. This video traces his beginnings as a boy from Trenchtown to the formation of one of the most popular reggae groups of all time

[@milvertonsaint]

Hey! My name is Milverton Braithwaite. This is my uncle and he was one of my favorite people. He always gave me MASSIVE oranges whenever he would come visit us in Atlanta. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see him much because he and my dad had a lot of tension. My dad was pro-war and didn’t respect Uncle Junior’s decision. Anyway it’s really refreshing to see someone appreciate him and tell his story. You did a really good job.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Wow 😲 I'm honored to have you comment on here. Thanks for the compliment. Highly appreciated ✌️

[@tomritchie3408]

im sure you would have a story or two to tell perhaps you guys could put something together that would be fascinating I'm sure.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

@AlchemicBeats If you have a Twitter I would love to follow you

[@647boss2]

Bless Milverton! It is an honour to see your comment here thanks for sharing. Just curious, which war were your Dad and Uncle at odds with?

[@Myousaku]

😊0

[@vurra]

Its crazy to realize how many many great legendary artists this small island had produced

[@bedstuy89]

Still producin'

[@charmainewalker8627]

I know right. I just keep binge watching all of these. I don’t understand why this music history isn’t taught in our school. Many of the songs called younger artists are clueless. I mean I knew nothing of some of what I am watching on KZbin. Only of the regular artists

[@murcianity]

Never knew 'it hurts to be alone" Junior was singing lead.. Great info.

[@carlosblake3918]

Garnett silk

[@dcrasta]

JAH bless and RIP Mr Junior Braithwaith

[@bobbyjhay8685]

THANKS FOR SHARING OUR IDRENS STORY(S). TO I & I IDRENS R.I.P JAH GUIDE. JAH BLESS.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

🙏

[@rogermansour6085]

I managed Junior Braitwaite in the late seventies and early eighties in Chicago,Illinois where Junior was living.He sang in the New Era Reggae band and was the house band at the Wild Hare on Clark Street RIP Evangelist Roger Mansour missionary to Haiti

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Wow thanks for this nugget Elder Roger. I'm honored to have you comment on here 🙌

[@jabarisadler]

Hi Roger do you remember One Love Reggae Band in Chicago that started playing at the Wild Hare first?

[@davidbuchanan6943]

I didn't know that B. Marlay and P. Tosh were half brother's. Learn something every day. Respect.Scotland UK. David.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Bob and Bunny you mean

[@landomartini2003]

It's not Peter , it was Bunny Wailer his half brother

[@westyraviz]

Not half-brothers. Step-brothers.

[@westyraviz]

@@landomartini2003 Step-brother.

[@landomartini2003]

@@westyraviz correcto step-brother

[@michelrood2966]

Very interesting, i never knew this.What a story

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Yes I ✌️

[@irvinwilloughby6887]

Never too old to learn or you learn something new everyday,well that's me.

[@hartleycwhite]

THanks for your information on Junior Braithwaite and the Wailers. I still have my Wailers record with Junior Braithwaite doing lead voals. Despite it being dated, it was a decent song. Thanks again for filling in some missing gaps.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Blessings mon ✌️

[@tafimutekwe2855]

Very insightful. I had no idea what had happened to the soul-voiced Junior Braithwaite. What a tragic life full of wrong timings and had it not been for racist America's ill treatment of black youngsters who opposed the infamous Vietnam War young Junior Braithwaite would have realized his life long dream of becoming a medical doctor. I also remember that he had a cameo role in Bunny Wailer's most illustrious concert of all time, " Live In Madison Square Garden", when Bunny, then at his peak, introduced Braithwaite to the audience as an original Wailer and they both performed a powerful new tune on a then upcoming album, with both stars taking turns on lead vocals. (Looking forward to The Reggae Appreciation Society doing an episode on the remaining lost Wailer, Beverly Kelso.)

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Wow thanks for this nugget 👍

[@tafimutekwe2855]

@@ReggaeAppreciationSociety I also understand that for brief period of time in the 60's Rita Marley's cousin Constantine "Vision" Dreamwalker was also conscripted as a member of The Wailers but of course he cannot be regarded as an original member.

[@josephsaroce4991]

Great pics and footage of Jr. Braithwaite..thank you..excellent.

[@tomritchie3408]

nice brother this has always intrigued as to what happened to both junior and if i recall correctly Beverley Kelso. thanks for putting what fragments i was aware of together in a nice package. magnificent band and its nice to hear it explained so well.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Blessings mon ✌️ Thanks for watching

[@matsuihenriques2013]

Thank you, sir, didn't know, now I know...🤝🏽🤝🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🇨🇦

[@t_ruth555]

Love these stories you share, really appreciate you sharing them 🔴🟡🟢❤️

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Glad you like them! Blessings ✌️

[@5446ize]

Respect thanks for the very interesting information.We need as a people to recognise and give credit to our brothers and sisters who have pulled themselves up from the deprivation trap. Keep up the history classes.👍🏿😎🇬🇭

[@ingriddouglas408]

Never heard of him before, thanks for the information.

[@andymunnings9109]

"I want you to know? I like your stories, because? The information was the true. We all need to know the true history of our Artists." 👍

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Blessings mon ✌️

[@michaelbarnett491]

Don't forget the late Cherry Green Who was a member of the Teenagers and an original member of the Wailers (6 not 5 members).

[@westyraviz]

Bob said this himself.

[@simbaking6338]

A sad story.indeed!....thanks for the valuable info as many including myself have always wondered what happened to the 4th Wailer.

[@philiahhaileiyah-israel1616]

Bratty lived with me and my family in Waukegan, north of Chicago... a real ITALIST weh love JAH... always trodding with a backpack full of fruits, dreadnut, ginger, nuff ... pure ital. No doubt him deh deh a rest wit JAH. Thanks for the video

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Wow thanks for sharing this ❤️💛💚

[@sageo4389]

The future is like a pacel. His live is destined that way. A lot of us go throw this painful path we sometimes ask didn't I try .

[@footprintstherapy]

Tragic story. Thanks for sharing.

[@philiahhaileiyah-israel1616]

My band was Radication... Junior Braithwaite basically pioneered the Reggae movement in Chicago

[@jabarisadler]

One Love Reggae Band yes 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@shakadee6839]

Top interview I fulljoy it to the maximum it filled in things that I thought I knew about the wailers. So tragic to hear these things because he sound like he was destining to be a medical physician but Amerikkka an its war like mentality wanted to medal in affairs that it has nothing to do with their rarse and this brother got cought up in their bullshit that cut his career. A well unsong hero its shameful to see the value of life in Jamaica is nothing and as with Peter who I met in the UK this talented singer had to end the same way. It's all about time imagine if the album would of come out in the 80's when it was recorded who knows where it would of been billboard material we never will know 😥🇯🇲😥🎤

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

Beverly Kelso apparently happens to be the only surviving member of the original Wailing Wailers....

[@lyrikalartstudio878]

1àq

[@dravonjackson]

Junior brtwit

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

Hardly any debate in my opinion... It's highly unlike Junior Braithwaites' presence would have moulded the Wailers together...The dominant corporate forces of Island Records, and Chris Blackwell and others would've been too strong for him to influence....If strong personalities like Bunny and Tosh in particular couldn't stem the tide i don't see how Braithwaite could ..Things were meant to be. One thing that's rarely mentioned in the Wailers break-up saga is the role played by Bob's close friend and collaborator Lee Scratch Perry who actively encouraged Bob towards his solo path as early as 1970 when he (before Chris Blackwell ) was the Band's producer and mixer and part-time songwriter.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Interesting 🤔

[@johntom8291]

No Bob Marley broke away from Lee Perry and took Family Man and Carl with him to focus on his own production

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

@@johntom8291 True to nature Bob and Lee Perry settle their differences and made Peace resulting in the Small Axe collaboration which ultimately ended on the Burnin' album after it's initial release a few years earlier....My point is, the seeds of separation may have been planted earlier than Chris Blackwell's tenure as producer.

[@djibinlokoydjo2553]

​@@lawrencenjawe9875 Bla bla bla...You wasn't présent...

[@johntom8291]

@@lawrencenjawe9875 My cousin is Junior Marvin I know more than what I am saying The Wailers will be coming to perform at Milton Keynes the UK in the summer 😎

[@theroom1studio]

sad but true story of a legend

[@MrNanah38]

Good work bro, keep it up.

[@johntmusic543]

juniors singing on it hurts to be alone

[@barrycrooks1]

Don't think so. That us a female voice doing the lead. Check it. She is still alive.

[@juniorzigzag467]

just discovered yo channel but its good bro

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Thanks mi lion 🦁 bless up

[@blakeaaron5698]

I never knew of The Never Ending Wailers project

[@karlmacdonald3267]

very cool video, that must have been hard for him. I should check some of his music out.....thank you!

[@avondaledyer8837]

awesome!!!!

[@joymyers3555]

Good info,hard luck Jnr🙏

[@mystyjakanyango4079]

Never knew. Thanks brother

[@Poche.de.miel.]

Thank you sir! Where did you find all these infos??

[@rickysingh8124]

Amazing story and images.

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

Glad you enjoyed it! Big up mon ✌️

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

@@ReggaeAppreciationSociety And Yes...Thanks for the small snippets of information on The Legendary Teacher/Mentor Joe Higgs (RIP), the first ever Rastaman to be jailed for his beliefs.....Jah Know.... OFFICIALLY 😁😁😁

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

@@lawrencenjawe9875 blessings Ras Njawe ✌️

[@caribbeangtr8077]

Interesting

[@feyazibi2164]

I didn't know these legends were four of them thanx brother do you have any music video both of them

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

No mi lion. Still looking for it

[@feyazibi2164]

@@ReggaeAppreciationSociety my lion can you place in writings what you said in the video if that possible sometimes is better to read something than to listen just in short .

[@elainereid1386]

Rest 💓 in love 💞💓 and power 💞 you mighty warriors JAH 🙏🏿🙏🏿 PROPHET'S Give thanks and praise to JAH 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💞 RASTAFARI EMPEROR HALLIE SELASSIE the first KING 👑👑👑 of KINGS ❤️❤️💞 LORD 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 of LORDS Conquering LION 🦁 of the tribe of JUDAH EARTH 🌍🌎 rightful ruler Amum RASTAFARI AMUM

[@thompsonthomas7842]

Life! You never know what's in store

[@errylattik1507]

..it was six one time...Cherry Smith was also part of The Wailing Wailers

[@alvinsmith4196]

Dream, Beverly, Junior, Bob, Bunny, Peter. Six Wailers in all.

[@robertgrant5372]

That’s how easy one can loose their life in Jamaica, the culture needs to change, my people are evil !

[@chechidi]

What a sad story.

[@thanduxolo]

In Talking Blues Bob count Cherry as one of the original wailing wailers, where is he/she..?

[@ianfiberesima1205]

Can you look into Vision Constantine.. of the Wailers ..

[@ianfiberesima1205]

Constantine Vision Walker

[@user-wp6fb8os7t]

Thank you for this history

[@JasonWalkerJamaica]

For those who are adding Cherry she was never a member of the Wailers. Beverly Kelso and Jr Braithwaite were the originators of the Teenagers and brought in Peter, Bunny & Bob. Joe Higgs was Jr Braithwaite's godfather that mentored them. Coxsone only used Beverly though when he created the Wailers.

[@sadepumkin7760]

Facts

[@ronkali5365]

The Wailer that sung the song "Hallelujah Time" have the best voice of them all.Too bad he didn't stay around

[@061romell]

👀 that was bunny doing the leads on that song

[@ronkali5365]

@@061romell Wrong it was another guy his mother took him out the band

[@nattyjones8907]

But why forget Bervery Kelso?😢😢

[@clivethompson6489]

Junior bratwaite was the best vocalist as a original wailers..

[@evertonbrownsnr.5807]

Hay six people were in the group four male two female

[@talesframyaad9748]

YES I REMEMBER WHEN THEY KILL JUNIOR BRAITHWAITHE IN WASHINGTON GARDENS KINGSTON 20

[@tatu8663]

Also don't forget Vision Walker who was a wailer.

[@austingode]

So much tragedy…………😢

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

😥

[@anthonywright7507]

Beverly Kelso is the fourth member of the Wailers

[@aweirdredtoad3637]

Junior was the fourth member, Beverly Kelso came later on as a backing vocalist alongside Cherry Smith.

[@maxinecoombs1260]

Junior Barthwaite

[@56postoffice]

Beverly Kelso is now the only surviving original Wailer left.

[@dorag4100]

The fourth member his name is Junior don’t remember his last name and they were called The Teenagers before rename The Wailers

[@westyraviz]

He was waaaaay younger than Peter, Bob, & even Bunny.

[@061romell]

About 4 years younger

[@westyraviz]

@@061romellwhen you are teens, 4-5 years age difference is a huge age gap. A 14 year old besides 18 and 19 year olds is not the same as a 25 years old alongside 29 and 30 years olds.

[@blueue1]

Simple answer is----Junior Braithwaite. He got shot and killed while he was visiting my keyboard player, Chaka, at his Washington Gardens home. Chaka also died. Unfortunate!!!!

[@fixitmaraj6419]

Pain black jammies against black jammies,gwannnnnnn suooo wicked people

[@chicfini]

What is it Jamaicans and guns?

[@michealbaskerville8832]

🌅Raahubatt 🤘🏿👽🤘🏿

[@bobizes2892]

*Rastafari Kedusan Girmawi Kedamaw'e Haile Selassie I JAH Almighty First...HalelluYah Sehumi Igziabeher...Ancient of days...Earth Rightful Ruler...King of Zion...Tenayistilign...I.N.R.I... Selah...*

[@rasamerlock4042]

💗💗💛💛💚💚

[@nguzoloveinlofi3832]

Bunny Wailer's father sure got around...

[@ReggaeAppreciationSociety]

😆

[@anthonywright7507]

No matter what story told Beverly Kelso is the forth Wailers I don't know why they keep leaving her out a Wailers and singing with is two different things Cherry sing with the wailers two .

[@sandybradshaw1879]

That’s still the lot of many women (Overlooked) #Lovesign #Maranatha

[@bungtempe]

there were 7 original wailers

[@leonramsay21]

Hurts to be alone.Wailer. Wheres Beverley Kelso?

[@jah22041]

The 4th was a woman Her name is Beverley kelso

[@dravonjackson]

Junior nraeait

[@gambeyrichey4410]

Legends live forever❤❤❤❤