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
- Introduction - 0:13
- Do the Propeller! - 1:54
- Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (song) (American Version Only) - 0:33
- Introduction
- 1:05 - Peanut Butter - 2:04
- Introduction - 0:06
- Beep! Beep! Buckle Up! - 1:45
- Introduction - 0:33
- Emma (with the Bow in Her Hair) - 1:54
- Introduction - 0:23
- Simon Says - 1:06
- Introduction - 0:15
- I've Got My Glasses On! - 2:39
- Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around - 1:35
- Simon's Cold Water Blues - 1:23
- Baby Keep Smiling - 3:33
- Little Bunny Foo Foo - 4:03
- Introduction - 0:59
- Dorothy's Dance Party - 2:12
- Introduction - 0:04
- Everybody's Here - 1:18
- Introduction - 0:06
- Who Got Da Bones? - 1:14
- Introduction - 1:03
- Rock-a-Bye Your Bear - 1:26
- Introduction - 0:23
- Dancing on the High Seas - 2:15
- Introduction - 0:10
- The Shimmie Shake! (Live) - 1:22
- Introduction - 0:22
- Meteorology (the Study of the Atmosphere) - 2:24
- Introduction - 0:06
- Dance to Your Daddy - 1:18
- Introduction - 0:05
- Get Ready To Wiggle - 2:05
- Introduction - 0:11
- Alouette/Mimi's Dance - 1:55
Personnel
- The Wiggles are
Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie,
Simon Pryce and Emma Watkins - Executive Producers:
Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt,
Anthony Field - Music Produced by
Anthony Field - Music Recorded at
Hot Potato Studios, Sydney - Recorded by
Ben Hardie, Alex Keller - Mixed by
Alex Keller - Mastered by
Don Bartley - Vocals:
Simon Pryce, Lachlan Gillespie,
Emma Watkins, Anthony Field,
Paul Paddick - Captain Feathersword Vocals:
Paul Paddick - Dorothy the Dinosaur Vocals:
Bláthnaid Conroy Murphy - Henry the Octopus Vocals:
Paul Paddick - Wags the Dog Vocals:
Jeff Fatt - Backing Vocals:
Bláthnaid Conroy Murphy,
Jeff Fatt, Lachlan Gillespie,
Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins
Musicians
- Guitar: Anthony Field, John Field,
Murray Cook, Alex Keller - Keyboard/Xylophone: Jeff Fatt,
Lachlan Gillespie,
Bláthnaid Conroy Murphy - Cello: Alex Keller
- Drums: Mark Marriott,
Anthony Field, Steve Pace - 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 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).
- The instrumental track of The Taiwanese Wiggles song Dorothy的歡樂party is used for Dorothy's Dance Party.
- 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!.
- In the back cover of the US album release, the word "Live" is removed from The Shimmie Shake!.
- This is the last album where Mark Marriott plays the drums.
Goofs
- On the song credits, Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt's names are listed in Rock-a-Bye Your Bear whereas Anthony Field's name is listed in Get Ready To Wiggle.