How many years passed between the first hit song by Chuck Berry and the biggest hit by the band The Fabulous Wailers?
The Fabulous Wailers:  Their biggest hit was "Tall Cool One", first released in 1959, and they have been credited as being "one of the very first, if not the first, of the American garage bands." Chuck Berry:  With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive.
Their biggest hit was "Tall Cool One", first released in 1959