For the 2006 re-issue of this album, see It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!
Wake Up Jeff! is the sixth album released by The Wiggles. The album's tie-in video special was released in Australia on August 5th, 1996, and the album itself won the 1996 ARIA Music Award for Best Children's Album.
The album was later re-issued in 2006 as It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!, with some songs removed and other songs added.
Tracklist[]
- We Like To Say Hello - 1:54
- Henry's Underwater Big Band - 2:27
- Statue - 0:06
- Everybody Is Clever - 1:59
- Swim, Swim, Swim - 0:06
- Having Fun At The Beach - 1:42
- Food Wish - 0:14
- Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song) - 1:17
- Bucket Of Dew/Paddy Condon From Cobar - 1:40
- Guess What? - 1:41
- Wake Up Jeff! - 1:22
- A Frog Went A Walking - 1:25
- Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?) - 1:49
- Take a Trip Out on the Sea - 1:05
- Romp Bomp A Stomp - 1:24
- Whales - 0:06
- Baby Baluga - 2:23
- Chu-Lu-Lu - 0:51
- Name Game - 1:01
- I Can Do So Many Things - 1:31
- Wave to Wags - 1:38
- House On The Hillside - 1:12
- Havenu Shalom Alechem - 1:08
- Quacking Sounds - 0:07
- Five Little Ducks - 1:56
- Windmills - 0:58
- Pipers Waltz - 1:26
Personnel[]
The Wiggles are Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page and Anthony Field
- Produced by The Wiggles
- Engineered by Chris Brooks and Aaron Ruig
- Management: John Spence and Associates Pty Ltd
- Photography: Gary Johnston
- Design: Deborah Parry Graphics
- Lead Vocals: Greg Page
- Back-up Vocals: The Wiggles, Paul Paddick, Greg Truman and Emma Buter
- Guitar: Terry Murray, Anthony Field and Murray Cook
- Bass Guitar: Murray Cook
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn and Piccolo Trumpet: Dominic Lindsay
- Viola: Angela Lindsay
- Cello: Margaret Lindsay
- Violin: Maria Schattovits
- Accordion, Piano, Organ, Snoring: Jeff Fatt
- Drums: Tony Henry
- Congas: Paul Rodgers
- Tin Whistle: Anthony Field
Trivia[]
- This was the first album to feature Paul Paddick as a backing vocalist, as well as the first to feature Dominic, Angela, Margaret, and Maria Lindsay as musicians.
- "Henry's Underwater Big Band", "Wake Up Jeff!", "Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)" and "Five Little Ducks" had previously debuted during the 1995 Big Red Car live tour before the album's release.
- The songs "Guess What?", "A Frog Went A Walking", "Baby Baluga", "Chu-Lu-Lu", "Name Game", "House On The Hillside", "Havenu Shalom Alechem", "Five Little Ducks", and "Windmills" were not filmed for the album's tie-in video special.
- "Baby Baluga", "Everybody Is Clever", and "Chu-Lu-Lu" were removed from the North American release of the album.
- This was the first album to be engineered by Chris Brooks.
- The North American release added transcripts for the spoken tracks in the liner notes.
Mistakes and Errors[]
- Maria Schattovits' surname was misspelled as "Shattovits" in both versions of the album's liner notes.
- Early pressings of the North American cassette by Lyrick Studios did not remove the songs "Everybody Is Clever", "Baby Baluga" or "Chu-Lu-Lu", although later pressings fixed this.
- The word "Kazeoo" on Jeff Fatt's credit in the liner notes of the original Australian release is likely a misspelling of the keyboard brand "Casio".
- On the North American digital streaming release on Spotify, "We Like To Say Hello" was initially listed as "Christmas Day". This has since been fixed.
- In the liner notes of the original Australian release, Aaron Ruig's last name was misspelled as "Rhuig", and Chris Brooks' last name was misspelled as "Brooke". The North American liner notes fixed Brooks' name but kept the incorrect spelling of Ruig's name.
- Emma Buter and Greg Truman were not credited as backing vocalists on the North American release.