Taking Off! (album)

Taking Off! is a Wiggles album released on February 1, 2013. It nominated the 2013 ARIA Music Awards for Best Children's Album.

Song List
- 1:05
 * 1) Introduction - 0:13
 * 2) Do the Propeller! - 1:54
 * 3) Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (song) (American Version Only) - 0:33
 * 4) Introduction
 * 1) Peanut Butter - 2:04
 * 2) Introduction - 0:06
 * 3) Beep! Beep! Buckle Up! - 1:45
 * 4) Introduction - 0:33
 * 5) Emma (with the Bow in Her Hair) - 1:54
 * 6) Introduction - 0:23
 * 7) Simon Says - 1:06
 * 8) Introduction - 0:15
 * 9) I've Got My Glasses On! - 2:39
 * 10) Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around - 1:35
 * 11) Simon's Cold Water Blues - 1:23
 * 12) Baby Keep Smiling - 3:33
 * 13) Little Bunny Foo Foo - 4:03
 * 14) Introduction - 0:59
 * 15) Dorothy's Dance Party - 2:12
 * 16) Introduction - 0:04
 * 17) Everybody's Here - 1:18
 * 18) Introduction - 0:06
 * 19) Who Got Da Bones? - 1:14
 * 20) Introduction - 1:03
 * 21) Rock-a-Bye Your Bear - 1:26
 * 22) Introduction - 0:23
 * 23) Dancing on the High Seas - 2:15
 * 24) Introduction - 0:10
 * 25) The Shimmie Shake! - 1:22
 * 26) Introduction - 0:22
 * 27) Meteorology (the Study of the Atmosphere) - 2:24
 * 28) Introduction - 0:06
 * 29) Dance to Your Daddy - 1:18
 * 30) Introduction - 0:05
 * 31) Get Ready To Wiggle - 2:05
 * 32) Introduction - 0:11
 * 33) Alouette/Mimi's Dance - 1:55

Personnel
Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Emma Watkins Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field Anthony Field Hot Potato Studios, Sydney Ben Hardie, Alex Keller Alex Keller Don Bartley Simon Pryce, Lachlan Gillespie, Emma Watkins, Anthony Field, Paul Paddick Paul Paddick Bláthnaid Conroy Murphy Paul Paddick Jeff Fatt Bláthnaid Conroy Murphy, Jeff Fatt, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins
 * The Wiggles are
 * Executive Producers:
 * Music Produced by
 * Music Recorded at
 * Recorded by
 * Mixed by
 * Mastered by
 * Vocals:
 * Captain Feathersword Vocals:
 * Dorothy the Dinosaur Vocals:
 * Henry the Octopus Vocals:
 * Wags the Dog Vocals:
 * Backing Vocals:

Musicians
Murray Cook, Alex Keller Lachlan Gillespie, Bláthnaid Conroy Murphy Anthony Field, Steve Pace
 * Guitar: Anthony Field, John Field,
 * Keyboard/Xylophone: Jeff Fatt,
 * Cello: Alex Keller
 * Drums: Mark Marriott,
 * Graphic Design: Georgia Kemmis
 * Stills Photographers: Jeff Fatt, Neil Hamilton-Ritchie, Lauren Hannaford, Nick Hutchinson, Caterina Mete

Digital

 * Everywhere: January 31, 2013

CD

 * Australia: February 3, 2013
 * America: May 7, 2013

Trivia

 * Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins, and Lachlan Gillespie debut in this album as the current Wiggles.
 * A Behind the Scenes clip shows The Wiggles recording their song Emma (With The Bow In Her Hair) while another shows Simon, Emma, and Lachy recording their vocals on Get Ready To Wiggle.
 * The songs Do the Propeller! (at the time just called "Propeller") and Everybody's Here had early demo versions appear on the DVD for Celebration!
 * The booklet shows a photo of the Current Wiggles singing Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car on stage, but that song is not on the album or the video. Other songs such as Okiaan AKA Skokiaan, I Stamp, and Roll the Acrobats, which had music videos shot at the same time as the Taking Off! video may have also been cut from the album. The point is the Current Wiggles originally recorded 22 songs in mid-May 2012.
 * Sam Moran's traditional arrangement credit on Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around remains from Pop Go The Wiggles!. This is the only song Sam has been credited on in any current generation album or video (not counting the 2014 version of Hot Potatoes! The Best Of The Wiggles).
 * This album uses Taiwanese instrumental track of Dorothy's Dance Party (with added sitar), and the 1998 Version of Get Ready To Wiggle. Rock-a-Bye Your Bear uses backing vocals and some instruments from the 1997 version, with newly added instrumentation.
 * Both Do the Propeller! and I've Got My Glasses On share similarities with The Cockroaches' song Lucy Don't Matter, and one or both may have intentionally been adapted from it.
 * Baby Keep Smiling is the only song that doesn't appear on the Taking Off! DVD.
 * Do the Propeller! and Simon Says were previously sung in the Christmas Celebration Tour!.
 * The introductions had no writers credited.