"Hits And Rarities" (known on digital platforms as "Hit Songs and Rarities") is a Wiggles compilation released on October 19th, 2012. It includes songs from the past 21 years and including some that are considerably rare, as well as two The Wiggles Radio Show episodes.
It was released in North America almost 6 years later on August 31st, 2018, the same year as the release of The Wiggles Reunion Show.
Tracklist[]
- Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (Live)
from The Wiggles' Big Birthday! - Fruit Salad
from Yummy Yummy - Hot Potato
from Yummy Yummy (1999) - Five Little Joeys
from Here Comes The Big Red Car - Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
from Toot Toot! - Dr Knickerbocker (Live)
from The Wiggles' Big Birthday! - Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?)
from Here Comes The Big Red Car - J'suis Dorothy The Dinosaur (French Version)
from Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book - Monkey Man (featuring Kylie Minogue)
from The Wiggles Go Bananas! - Taba Naba (featuring Christine Anu)
from It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! - Quack Quack
from Toot Toot! - I'm a Cow (Jeff's only solo song)
from The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack - The Monkey Dance
from Yummy Yummy (1999) - Advance Australia Fair (Australia's National Anthem, Wiggly Version!)
from Anthem - Celebration of Australia - Romp Bomp A Stomp
from It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
from Pop Go The Wiggles! - Shaky Shaky
from Yummy Yummy - Walk On The Wild Side (Wiggly Version)
from Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge 2: Even More Challenged! - Follow The Leader
from Getting Strong! - The Crocodile Hunter (featuring Steve Irwin)
from Wiggly Safari - Lechoo Yeladim (Hebrew)
from Here Comes a Song - Move Your Arms Like Henry (Spanish version)
from Splish Splash Big Red Boat - Getting Strong! (Greg Page version)
- I Climb Ten Stairs (Mandarin version)
- Wake Up Jeff!
from Wake Up Jeff! - Captain Feathersword (He Loves to Dance) (Anthony Field as Captain version)
from The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate - The Shimmie Shake! (Live)
from The Wiggles' Big Birthday! - Wags The Dog, He Likes To Tango
from Toot Toot! - The Wiggles Radio Show Episode: "Hip Hop Henry"
- The Wiggles Radio Show Episode: "The Comedy Show"
iTunes LP Bonus features[]
The iTunes LP version of this album also includes a menu screen where you can choose each song, view a biography of The Wiggles, a gallery of posters, as well as watch the following bonus video clips:
- Captain Feathersword
from Wiggle Time! - Wake up, Danny (Taiwanese version of Wake Up Jeff!)
from The Wiggles Show! (Taiwanese TV Series)/Lights, Camera, Action! 好戲上場 - Henry the Octopus
from Wiggle Time! - Big Red Car
from Big Red Car - Hot Potato
from Yummy Yummy - Getting Strong! (Greg's unreleased version)
- Smell Your Way Through The Day (Greg's unreleased version)
Personnel[]
- The Wiggles: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Sam Moran, Greg Page
- Executive Producers: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field
- Music Produced by Anthony Field
- Mastered by Don Bartley
- Graphic Design: Georgia Kemmis
Trivia[]
- I'm a Cow is credited as "Jeff's only solo song", but he actually had two others, Would You Giggle and Once I Saw A Little Bird.
- The only song that had never been on any album before is Greg's new version of Getting Strong!. Additionally, the Spanish version of Move Your Arms Like Henry and the Mandarin version of I Climb Ten Stairs had never been released on an Australian album before, after only in the Americas and Asia respectively.
- The video clips of Captain Feathersword, Henry The Octopus, and Hot Potato are said to be from "Deleted videos" instead of Wiggle Time and Yummy Yummy.
- Jacques the Shark returns on this album.
- The booklet shows photos of The Wiggles over their first 21 years.
- The Wiggles' signatures and the text on the front cover and spine are in a shiny silver colour on the Australian/New Zealand version. This is changed to a light green on the North American version. The text is white on the disc art in all versions.
- The inside cover is black and white on the Australian release, but presented in full colour on the North American release.
- The cover of the album is based off the cover of Queen's 'Hot Space' album.
Goofs[]
- Wigglemix, which appears in The Wiggles Radio Show episode Hip Hop Henry, is not listed in the credits of the album booklet. Instead, Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) and Fruit Salad are listed separately, with no mention of It's A Pirate Party On The Good Ship Feathersword, of which the piano and guitar are prominently featured in Wigglemix.
- Despite being released in 2018, the North American CD retains the previous ABC for Kids logo from the original Australian release. In addition, the defunct wiggletime.com is still mentioned on the back. Not only that, its promoting sentence, "Visit www.wiggletime.com for more Wiggly fun!", has the word "fun!" mistakenly cut off.