The Sporting Salsa



The Sporting Salsa is a Wiggles song from Getting Strong!. It's also the dance where it shows how to do it.

Music

 * Salsa

Songwriting
After listening to salsa music, Greg had an idea of doing a new dance called the sporting salsa.

Songwriting
Murray, Jeff, and Anthony wrote music while Greg wrote the lyrics.

Recording
Greg provide the vocals, Murray plays the bass guitar, Anthony plays the electric guitar, Jeff plays the piano, and Derek Antunes plays the drums.

2006 Version

 * Music: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field
 * Lyrics and Original Idea: Greg Page
 * Arrangement: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page
 * Publisher: Wiggly Tunes

2007 Version

 * Music: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field
 * Lyrics: Greg Page
 * Arrangement: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page, John Field, Dominic Lindsay
 * Publisher: Wiggly Tunes

2006 Version

 * Vocals - Greg Page
 * Bass - Chris Lupton
 * Electric Guitar - Anthony Field
 * Acoustic Guitar - Murray Cook
 * Organ - Jeff Fatt
 * Drums - Derek Antunes

2007 Version

 * Lead Vocals - Sam Moran
 * Backing Vocals - Craig Abercrombie, Brett Clarke, Ryan DeSaulnier
 * Bass - Chris Lupton
 * Electric Guitar - John Field
 * Acoustic Guitar - Murray Cook
 * Bouzouki - George Tseros
 * Piano: Jeff Fatt
 * Organ: Jeff Fatt
 * Drums: Anthony Howe
 * Percussion: Anthony Howe
 * Trumpet - Dominic Lindsay
 * Clarinet - Anita Thomas

Song Lyrics
Sam: Jeff, pass the ball to Murray

Murray, pass the ball to Anthony

Captain, pass the ball to Wags-y

Wags-y, pass the ball to Dorothy

All: Let's all do the sporting salsa

Turn around and do the sporting salsa

Let's all do the sporting salsa

Let's get our heartbeat up (2x)

Trivia

 * The 2007 version shows John O'Grady, John Field, George Tseros, Anthony Howe, Dominic Lindsay, and Anita Thomas playing music.