Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car! is the fifty-seventh album released by The Wiggles. The album's tie-in video special was released in Australia on October 7th, 2020.
The album features guest appearances from Australian singer-songwriter and musician John Williamson and Canadian folk group The East Pointers (Tim and Koady Chaisson and Jake Charron).
Tracklist[]
- Trains, Planes and the Big Red Car
- Trains Rolling Down the Track
- Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
- Moose in the Caboose
- Paddlin' Australia
- Big, Big Heart
- Rocket Ship
- Social Distancing
- Old Man Emu
- Watching the Planes
- Emma's Bowmobile, Beep Beep!
- Are We There Yet?
- Zoo Be Doo Dee
- Walk
- Do the Propeller!
- We Fly the Plane to the Outback
- How Good is That?
- Beatrice Bee
- Wiggle at Home
- Wheels on the Wheelchair
- The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
- Roll the Acrobats
- Handwashing Song
Personnel[]
Credits taken from the tie-in video:
The Wiggles are: Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins
- Music Produced By: Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Oliver Brian, Alex Keller
- Music Recorded at Hot Potato Studios
- Recorded and Mixed by Alex Keller
- Mastered by Don Bartley
- Vocals: Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Paul Paddick, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins, John Williamson
- Backing Vocals: Oliver Brian, Gary Daley, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Mark Harris, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins
- Musicians: Oliver Brian, Ray Cassar, Murray Cook, Gary Daley, Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Mark Harris, Tony Henry, Alex Keller, Steve Pace, The East Pointers, Emma Watkins, John Williamson
Trivia[]
- Former Wiggles Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt made guest appearances on the album as a musician and as a backing vocalist respectively.
- This was the first album to feature Tony Henry as a musician since Getting Strong!.
- This was the final album to feature trumpeter Ray Cassar as a musician.
- "Roll the Acrobats" was recycled from the Wiggle House album, but with slightly different vocals and musical arrangements.
- This marks The Wiggles' longest album title to date.
- The title might possibly be a reference to the 1987 Paramount comedy movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, starring Steve Martin and John Candy.
- The album was nominated for Best Independent Children's Album or EP at the 2021 AIRA Awards, but lost to Teeny Tiny Stevies' Thoughtful Songs for Little People.