Top of the Tots is the eighteenth album released by The Wiggles. The album was released in Australia on September 25th, 2003, and its tie-in video special was respectively released in America and Australia on January 13th and March 9th, 2004.
Tracklist[]
- Introduction - 0:24
- Bow Wow Wow - 1:23
- Introduction - 0:24
- Central Park New York - 1:30
- Introduction - 0:15
- Cowboys and Cowgirls - 1:50
- Introduction - 0:17
- Fly Through The Sky - 2:05
- Introduction - 0:32
- I Wave My Arms And Swing My Baton - 1:40
- Introduction - 0:17
- New York Firefighter - 1:35
- Introduction - 0:15
- Picking Flowers - 2:29
- Introduction - 0:17
- Say Aah at the Doctors - 1:36
- Introduction - 0:09
- Feeling Chirpy - 1:54
- Introduction - 0:32
- Lettuce Sing (Fresh Fruit And Vegies) - 2:00
- Introduction - 0:05
- Let's Go Swimming - 1:55
- Introduction - 0:17
- The Bricklayers Song - 1:58
- Introduction - 0:11
- Tick Tock (All Night Long) - 1:39
- Introduction - 0:11
- Can You Dig It? - 2:05
- Introduction - 0:12
- Knead Some Dough - 2:22
- Introduction - 0:07
- Open Wide Look Inside At The Dentist - 1:16
- Introduction - 0:12
- Hey There Partner - 1:48
- Introduction - 0:33
- Walking On The Moon - 2:20
Personnel[]
The Wiggles are Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page
- Vocals: Greg Page
- Guitar: Anthony Field, John Field, Robin Gist, Colin Watson
- Bass: Murray Cook, Chris Lupton
- Drums: Tony Henry
- Brass: Dominic Lindsay
- Percussion: Steve Machamer
- Keyboards: Jeff Fatt, Steve Blau
- Backing Vocals: 'The Manzillas' (Paul Paddick, Craig Abercrombie, Brett Clarke, Sam Moran & Simon Pryce)
- Producer: Anthony Field
- Musical Arrangements: The Wiggles, Dominic Lindsay
- Recorded and mixed at Electric Avenue Studios, Sydney, Australia by Robin Gist
- Mastered at Studios 301 by Don Bartley
- Photography: Gary Johnston
- Artwork: Geoff Morrison
- Production Team: Jennifer Carmody, Paul Field
Trivia[]
- This was the first Wiggles album to feature sound engineer Robin Gist as a guitarist.
- "Hey There Partner" and "Walking On The Moon" were the only songs on the album to not appear in the tie-in video special, with the latter song later being featured in the It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! video.
- On the North American and United Kingdom releases, the spoken intro tracks were combined with their corresponding songs, resulting in eighteen total tracks rather than thirty-six.
- The liner notes for the North American release of the album used the American spelling of "Veggies" in the title of "Lettuce Sing (Fresh Fruit And Vegies)".
- The Australian release of the album contained the music video for "Let's Go Swimming" as a bonus video clip. However, the music video appeared in its natively filmed aspect ratio of 16:9 compared to the 4:3 aspect ratio it was eventually cropped to for the release of the album's tie-in video.
- The album was nominated for the 2004 ARIA Music Award for Best Children's Album, but lost to Hi-5's Hi-5 Holiday.
- The name of the album is a reference to the British musical television programme Top of the Pops.
Mistakes and Errors[]
- On the cover art of the United Kingdom release, Murray Cook was not credited as a bassist and Jeff Fatt was not credited as a keyboardist.
Sources[]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050427111730/http://www.roadshow.com.au/village_category.asp?txtCatalog=Music&txtCategory=Wiggles
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050427111730/http://www.roadshow.com.au/village_category.asp?txtCatalog=Music&txtCategory=Wiggles
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050418181652if_/http://www.kochentertainment.com/the_wiggles_tots.htm
- ↑ https://youtu.be/c-KGOC2nICE
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111116052140/http://www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk/artists/index.asp?Marid=112