OG Wiggles

"Classic Wiggles" Logo used from 2018-2021

TheOGWigglesLogoVariant — "OG Wiggles" logo used from 2021-Present

OG Wiggles (also known as Classic Wiggles) is branding that has been used by The Wiggles for content featuring Anthony, Greg, Murray and Jeff on digital platforms. This includes videos and TV series on YouTube as well as albums on various streaming services.

History[]

Though a playlist containing a clip of "Rock-A-Bye Your Bear" existed as far back as 2016, a new "Classic Wiggles" series of videos was launched on April 6, 2018, with a new introduction by Murray. Uploads began with their 1993 debut special, Wiggle Time!, split into parts. Specials up to Space Dancing! continued to be uploaded this way through November 2020, with a few notable exceptions (the Dorothy and Captain spin-off videos and The Wiggly Big Show were skipped entirely, while Wiggly Safari was given different treatment noted below).

On December 5, 2019, ABC Music released various albums from 1996 to 2006 and 2012 to several streaming services and digital purchase platforms under the same "Classic Wiggles" branding. Most of these albums had been previously available but were removed in 2016, thus were returning from a three-year absence. Two albums made their digital debut, Go To Sleep Jeff! and Karaoke Christmas Songs, while others were available for the first time outside the United States and Canada, such as The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack^{[Note 1]}, Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party and Karaoke Songs 1^{[Note 2]}, which had been available for a time in that region when Koch Records/E1 Entertainment had The Wiggles' music distribution rights there; ABC Music's pre-2016 Wiggles catalogue on digital did not include any of these five albums. Making an overall international debut on streaming are the North American versions of Wiggle Time! (a.k.a. Let's Wiggle) and Yummy Yummy, replacing their Australian counterparts.

By October 2020, a number of changes began to be made to the YouTube uploads. Wiggly Safari was the first video to be uploaded in its entirety that month, followed by the first episode of TV Series 1. In November, Wiggle Time! saw a reupload where it was presented as one video, though the original fragmented videos remained on the channel as well.

Around this time it was announced that unreleased/rare Wiggles videos from all generations would be coming to The Wiggles' YouTube Page presented by the character Sir Lesley Longley. The first of these was a concert from the Sailing Around the World Live! tour uploaded in early December. This was the first video branded as "OG Wiggles" and episodes from TV Series 1 continued to be uploaded with the "Classic Wiggles TV" name.

Throughout December 2020, song compilations included clips from the 1999 version of Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas with songs from the 2017 counterpart. Between these uploads, a few individual "OG Wiggles" song clips were uploaded as well, starting with "Jingle Bells". This continued in January 2021, when animal song compilations featured clips from Wiggly Safari, at which point "Old Man Emu" was uploaded on its own with this new branding. By this point, separate OG Wiggles! and Classic Wiggles TV! playlists had been created, and the original Classic Wiggles playlist was retitled "Classic Wiggles Specials!" (though the distinction was muddled by all three playlists containing TV episodes, and the "Specials" playlist contained individual song clips as well).

On January 18, 2021, to commemorate the release of the new song "We're All Fruit Salad!", six clips were uploaded of the original "Fruit Salad" from various sources, including videos featuring Sam for the first time (specifically Wiggledancing! Live In Concert and The Wiggles' Big Birthday!), as well as a Little Wiggles clip from Series 4.

Two days later, on January 20th, some previous "Classic Wiggles" uploads began to be re-branded as "OG Wiggles." As of this date, the albums on streaming remain known as "Classic Wiggles." The Sam videos were later re-branded as simply "The Wiggles" on the title and thumbnail, also noting "with Sam Wiggle!" in the title, establishing the Sam era as it's own separate thing. The "Classic Wiggles Specials!" playlist was deleted around this time, and the regular "OG Wiggles!" playlist was cleaned up to remove TV episodes and the Sam content (The "OG Wiggles TV!" playlist remained separate; however, a new Sam playlist was not created at this time).

It is likely that videos will no longer be uploaded in parts. Full videos have continued to be uploaded sporadically, and not in order, indicating that they may not be planning to upload them all anymore (or at least not on a regular basis) since they expanded to other content, with the current focus being individual music videos.

By summer 2021, all new videos uploaded to the YouTube channel show the regular Wiggles logo in the thumbnail, while videos featuring Greg have "OG Wiggles" in the title. Some existing videos had the logo replaced on the thumbnail as well (including all Series 1 episodes, and even The Little Wiggles version of "Fruit Salad"), while other thumbnails were given further design updates. As of January 2024, a number of original thumbnails still remain showing either the OG Wiggles or Classic Wiggles logos.

YouTube Videos[]

Note: Dates are supposed to be based on Australian time zones. Upload dates may appear different in other countries.

Song Clips (2016, 2020-present)[]

Rock-A-Bye Your Bear from Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2010) DVD, originated from Wiggle Time! (1993) (uploaded on February 15, 2016)
- This was uploaded to celebrate 25 years of The Wiggles and has since been rebranded as part of the series.
Jingle Bells from Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (uploaded on December 9, 2020)
Feliz Navidad from Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (uploaded on December 23, 2020)
Wiggly Christmas Medley from Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (uploaded on December 30, 2020)
Old Man Emu from Wiggly Safari (uploaded on January 14, 2021)
Fruit Salad from Wiggle Time! (1993) (uploaded January 18, 2021)
Fruit Salad from Yummy Yummy (1998) (uploaded January 18, 2021)
Fruit Salad from LIVE Hot Potatoes! (uploaded January 18, 2021)
Fruit Salad (Little Wiggles!) from The Wiggles Show!: Paint a Portrait (uploaded January 18, 2021)
Little Dingo (Dingo Tango) from Wiggly Safari (uploaded January 28, 2021)
Hot Potato from Yummy Yummy (1994) (uploaded March 3, 2021)
Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car from Toot Toot! (1999) (uploaded March 8, 2021)
Get Ready To Wiggle from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded March 15, 2021)
- It was later uploaded again on December 29th, 2023.
Huddle, Huddle, Huddle Along (The Football Song) from Racing to the Rainbow (uploaded on July 19, 2021)
Rolling Down The Sandhills/Running Up The Sandhills from Wiggle Bay (uploaded on July 19, 2021)
Let's Go Swimming from Top of the Tots (uploaded on July 20, 2021)
Have A Happy Birthday from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (uploaded on September 20, 2021)
Food Food Food (Oh How I Love My Food) from Toot Toot! (1999) (uploaded on September 21, 2021)
Wiggly Party from Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (uploaded on September 28, 2021)
Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on October 22, 2021)
Go Santa Go from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on December 20, 2021)
Fruit Salad from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on January 3, 2022)
Five Little Ducks from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on January 17, 2022)
D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on January 28, 2022)
Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on February 7, 2022)
Get Ready To Wiggle (from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief) (uploaded on February 21st, 2022)
Play Your Guitar With Murray (from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief) (uploaded on February 28th, 2022)
The Monkey Dance (from The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on March 11th, 2022)
Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) from The OG Wiggles Reunion Tour! (uploaded on March 29th, 2022)
Get Ready To Wiggle (from Let's Wiggle, originated from The Wiggles 1997 Big Show) (uploaded on August 15th, 2022)
Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack) from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded on December 13th, 2023)
Henry the Octopus from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded on December 23rd, 2023)
Dorothy the Dinosaur from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded on January 7th, 2024)
Captain Feathersword from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded on February 4th, 2024)
I Love It When It Rains from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded on February 13th, 2024)
Here Comes a Bear from Wiggle Time! (1998) (uploaded on March 17th, 2024)
The Monkey Dance from Yummy Yummy (1998) (uploaded on March 25th, 2024)

Fragmented Videos (2018-2020)[]

Wiggle Time!
- Part 1 (uploaded on April 6, 2018)
- Part 2 (uploaded on April 6, 2018)
- Part 3 (uploaded on April 6, 2018)
Big Red Car
- Part 1 (uploaded on April 20, 2018)
- Part 2 (uploaded on May 7, 2018)
- Part 3 (uploaded on May 18, 2018)
Yummy Yummy
- Part 1 (uploaded on June 15, 2018)
- Part 2 (uploaded on June 29, 2018)
- Part 3 (uploaded on July 16, 2018)
- Part 4 (uploaded on August 6, 2018)
Wake Up Jeff!
- Part 1 (uploaded on August 17, 2018)
- Part 2 (uploaded on August 27, 2018)
- Part 3 (uploaded on September 17, 2018)
- Part 4 (uploaded on September 24, 2018)
Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
- Part 1 (uploaded on November 12, 2018)
- Part 2 (uploaded on November 26, 2018)
- Part 3 (uploaded on December 14, 2018)
- Part 4 (uploaded on December 21, 2018)
Wiggle Time! (1998 Version)
- Part 1 (uploaded on February 4, 2019)
- Part 2 (uploaded on February 18, 2019)
- Part 3 (uploaded on February 25, 2019)
- Part 4 (uploaded on March 13, 2019)
Wiggledance!
- Part 1 (uploaded on April 17, 2019)
- Part 2 (uploaded on May 8, 2019)
- Part 3 (uploaded on May 29, 2019)
- Part 4 (uploaded on June 19, 2019)
Yummy Yummy (1998 Version)
- Part 1 (uploaded on July 10, 2019)
- Part 2 (uploaded on August 21, 2019)
- Part 3 (uploaded on September 11, 2019)
Toot Toot!
- Part 1 (uploaded on November 5, 2019)
- Part 2 (uploaded on December 4, 2019)
- Part 3 (uploaded on December 18, 2019)
- Part 4 (uploaded on January 8, 2020)
It's a Wiggly Wiggly World
- Part 1 (uploaded on January 30, 2020)
- Part 2 (uploaded on February 19, 2020)
- Part 3 (uploaded on March 10, 2020)
- Part 4 (uploaded on April 22, 2020)
Hoop-Dee-Doo It's a Wiggly Party
- Part 1 (uploaded on May 22, 2020)
- Part 2 (uploaded on June 6, 2020)
- Part 3 (uploaded on June 27, 2020)
- Part 4 (uploaded on July 18, 2020)
Wiggle Bay
- Part 1 (uploaded on August 13, 2020)
- Part 2 (uploaded on August 22, 2020)
- Part 3 (uploaded on September 4, 2020)
- Part 4 (uploaded on September 11, 2020)
Space Dancing!
- Part 1 (uploaded on September 19, 2020)
- Part 2 (uploaded on October 3, 2020)
- Part 3 (uploaded on October 28, 2020)
- Part 4 (uploaded on November 4, 2020)

Full-Length Videos (2020-present)[]

Wiggly Safari (uploaded on October 17, 2020)
Wiggle Time! (1993 version) (uploaded on November 11, 2020)
It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (uploaded on July 16, 2021)
The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief (uploaded on February 11, 2022)
Racing to the Rainbow (uploaded on September 27, 2023)
Top of the Tots (uploaded on October 6, 2023)
It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (uploaded on October 12, 2023)
Sailing Around the World (uploaded on October 16, 2023)
Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (uploaded on October 25, 2023)
Toot Toot! (uploaded on October 30, 2023)
Wiggle Time! (1998 version) (uploaded on November 10, 2023)
Wiggle Bay (uploaded on November 12, 2023)
Here Comes The Big Red Car (uploaded on November 18, 2023)
Yule Be Wiggling (uploaded on November 22, 2023)
Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (uploaded on November 24, 2023)
Big Red Car (uploaded on November 27, 2023)
Santa's Rockin'! (uploaded on December 1, 2023)
Yummy Yummy (1994 version) (uploaded on December 4, 2023)
Yummy Yummy (1998 version) (uploaded on December 15, 2023)
Wake Up Jeff! (uploaded on December 21, 2023)
Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (uploaded on January 4, 2024)

OG Wiggles TV[]

TV Series 1 (2020-2021)[]

Anthony's Friend (uploaded on October 25, 2020)
Foodman (uploaded on November 1, 2020)
Murray's Shirt (uploaded on November 8, 2020)
Building Blocks (uploaded on November 15, 2020)
Jeff the Mechanic (uploaded on November 22, 2020)
Lilly Lavender (uploaded on November 29, 2020)
Zardo Zap (uploaded on December 6, 2020)
The Party (uploaded on December 13, 2020)
Wiggle Opera (uploaded on December 20, 2020)
Haircut (uploaded on December 27, 2020)
Muscleman Murray (uploaded on January 3, 2021)
Spooked Wiggles (uploaded on January 10, 2021)
Funny Greg (uploaded on January 24, 2021)

Sir Lesley Longley Presents... (2020-2022)[]

The Wiggles Live in Concert 2006 - filmed during the Sailing Around the World Tour at San Diego, CA, USA, April 28th, 2006 show (uploaded on December 4, 2020)
Wiggly Bloopers (uploaded on January 31, 2022)
The Wiggles 1997 Big Show (song compilation, uploaded on August 19, 2022)

Song Compilations featuring OG Wiggles (2020-2021, 2023-present)[]

Also featured in the playlists are promotions for The Wiggles Reunion Show, ReWiggled, Classic Wiggles albums on streaming and the unreleased videos.

Gallery[]

Streaming Albums[]

Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1996)
The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack (1997)
Toot Toot! (1998)
Let's Wiggle (1999) - under the name and cover of Wiggle Time!
Yummy Yummy (1999)
It's a Wiggly, Wiggly World! (2000)
Yule Be Wiggling (2000)
Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (2001)
Wiggly Safari (2002)
Wiggle Bay (2002)
Go to Sleep Jeff! (2003)
Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (2003)
Top of the Tots (2003)
Cold Spaghetti Western (2004)
Santa's Rockin! (2004)
LIVE Hot Potatoes! (2005)
Sailing Around the World (2005)
Karaoke Songs 1 (2005)
Karaoke Christmas Songs (2005)
Here Comes The Big Red Car (2006)
It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (2006)
Racing to the Rainbow (2006)
Surfer Jeff (2012)
Celebration! (2012)

Hit Songs and Rarities is also available, and tracks from it are in the Classic Wiggles Spotify playlist, but it had been available in previous years and is not branded "Classic Wiggles" like the rest.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

YouTube[]

Although some fans claim early videos are "remastered" or "restored in HD", they are simply digitized Betacam SP or Digital Betacam masters (standard definition, roughly DVD quality) blown up to 1080p. Racing to the Rainbow onward were made in true HD.^{[Note 3]}
- While the presentation of standard definition videos are usually identical to the Australian DVD releases of videos (apart from the deinterlacing, see below), there can be noticeable differences. For example, Wiggle Bay is presented in a 14:9 aspect ratio on YouTube (the original DVD release was cropped to 4:3). This 14:9 ratio was used on the Australian VHS, iTunes download and TV airings on ABC.
- Wake Up Jeff! is the only video to be from a VHS master, meaning the original Betacam master(s) might be lost.
Most standard-definition content are deinterlaced in a manner that causes jagged artefacts around edges. This problem was exacerbated when Space Dancing! was uploaded to YouTube. While it is mostly progressive scanned (leaving the live action scenes, transitions and end credits interlaced), the entire video was deinterlaced, leaving the animation unnecessarily jagged.
- Yummy Yummy (1994), Wake Up Jeff! and Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas weren't deinterlaced at all, leaving artefacts visible. Clips from the latter video uploaded in December 2020 were deinterlaced; however, various clips from Big Red Car were left with combing in compilations in 2021.
Each video ends with a card showing a promo image of The Wiggles and a message saying "SUBSCRIBE NOW! 'It's Free'". A song, most commonly "Get Ready To Wiggle" from the debut album, plays in the background.
- Though certain videos (such as Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas) have used a promo image of The Wiggles from 2002, the majority of OG Wiggles videos use an image of The Wiggles from 1994 in the end card.
The later parts of fragmented videos begin with the video's title sequence again (sometimes shortened, such as in Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party). The video then continues from where it left off in the previous part.
The end credits of videos (both full-length and fragmented) and episodes are cut out.
- Although Wake Up Jeff! retains "Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)", it has been cut down, leaving a portion of the song from the start before the credits and the ending.
- Wiggledance! has the audio fade out and video cut short before the credits would start rolling over it.
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" is cut from It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! in both its fragmented and full versions due to controversies surrounding Rolf Harris in recent years.
The TV Series 1 uploads are identical to the DVD Box Set versions of the episodes, suggesting that the Digital Betacam masters where these edited episodes had been stored were used for YouTube.

Goofs[]

The videos for Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and Toot Toot! are the 1999 re-edits, but they both state their original release years in the videos' description section.
Big Red Car, "Anthony's Friend" and "Foodman" are presented in mono, despite being created in stereo. In the case of Big Red Car, it seems the master they currently use is in mono. However, "Anthony's Friend" and "Foodman" have their endcards in mono as well, indicating this was just an error in exporting those videos for YouTube.
On September 1st 2021, all The Wiggles songs were re-uploaded again and removed the old brand from Classic Wiggles to OG Wiggles.
The white balance and contrast of the digitized master for Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas are significantly off, leaving the video presentation noticeably washed out and too bright. This issues has occurred every time the video has appeared on YouTube (i.e. in both its own individual uploads and in Christmas compilations).
The original thumbnail for the song compilation Amazing Animals! Old MacDonald & More... featured Murray, although he doesn't appear; the thumbnail was eventually changed. Likewise, Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus (which is not an official part of this series) features the Classic/OG Wiggles end card despite not featuring The Wiggles.
Beginning in 2021, clips from Wiggle Bay and Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! began to be cropped further to fill the 16:9 frame, similar to how clips from Wiggle Bay were presented in The Wiggles Reunion Show. While this is undoubtedly a conscious decision, it results in some tight framing and errors that were unintended. This issue may be addressed in some way in the future, as an Instagram post by fan page wigglesenthusiasts2 asked for the masters in use of these videos and Top of the Tots to be replaced by the 16:9 originals if at all possible (or at least for the extra cropping to stop), to which Anthony commented that he will have "Sir Lesley look into it".
- In the compilation Mary Had a Little Lamb & More Amazing Animal Songs, a clip of "Swim Like A Fish" was partially cropped and stretched to fill the frame, which, while less visually appealing as people appear a bit distorted, does result in more of the frame's height remaining visible.

Albums[]

Although most of the catalogue uses the Australian versions of albums, the North American version of Yummy Yummy is used, as is the North American-exclusive album Let's Wiggle (though it appears with the title and cover art of the similar Australian release, Wiggle Time!).
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" is cut from both It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! and Celebration!, due to controversies surrounding Rolf Harris in recent years. Part of the introduction to that song remains intact at the end of "Occi Tocci Onga" on the latter album.
"Wiggle 2012 Medley" is retitled "Wiggle Medley" on Celebration!.
Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and Toot Toot! use their re-release covers.
The cover used for Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party is that of its (no longer available) video release on iTunes, rather than its album cover.
Wiggly Safari's cover is edited, with the title moved over to the left to fit the Classic Wiggles logo next to it. In doing so, the font was changed from P22 Daddy O Hip to Circus Mouse Medium Book.
The LIVE Hot Potatoes! cover uses the modern version of The Wiggles Logo rather than the one used on the original cover. Since the cover used is a scan of the CD cover, the modern logo was simply placed over the older one.
The "G" rating on the Cold Spaghetti Western cover was removed. Likewise, the "15th Birthday" logo was removed from the Here Comes The Big Red Car, It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! and Racing to the Rainbow covers. All of these covers were scans of the CD booklets, so these were likely edited out and not removed from the original assets.
The photo used for the Classic Wiggles playlist cover is lifted directly from The Wiggly Big Show cover art (in the original photo, the door they're sticking their heads through is purple, and more shadows are visible).
In Australia and New Zealand, Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas, Yule Be Wiggling, Go To Sleep Jeff!, LIVE Hot Potatoes!, Karaoke Christmas Songs and Racing to the Rainbow weren't available on services until December 13th, 2019.

Notes[]

↑ Under the title "Magical Adventure"
↑ Under the title "Crunchy Munchy Music"
↑ The Wiggles Movie, which is not currently part of OG Wiggles due to rights issues, was shot on film and thus could truly be remastered in HD as film does not have a set resolution like video, and everything The Wiggles have shot on video exists at maximum resolutions of either 576i (interlaced PAL standard definition), 576p (progressive PAL SD), 1080i (interlaced high definition) or 1080p (progressive HD).

[1] Under the title "Magical Adventure"

[2] Under the title "Crunchy Munchy Music"

[3] The Wiggles Movie, which is not currently part of OG Wiggles due to rights issues, was shot on film and thus could truly be remastered in HD as film does not have a set resolution like video, and everything The Wiggles have shot on video exists at maximum resolutions of either 576i (interlaced PAL standard definition), 576p (progressive PAL SD), 1080i (interlaced high definition) or 1080p (progressive HD).

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[Note 3]

OG Wiggles

Contents

History[]

YouTube Videos[]

Song Clips (2016, 2020-present)[]

Fragmented Videos (2018-2020)[]

Full-Length Videos (2020-present)[]

OG Wiggles TV[]

TV Series 1 (2020-2021)[]

Sir Lesley Longley Presents... (2020-2022)[]

Song Compilations featuring OG Wiggles (2020-2021, 2023-present)[]

Gallery[]

Streaming Albums[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

YouTube[]

Goofs[]

Albums[]

Notes[]

Fan Feed