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Wake Up Jeff!

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Wake Up Jeff! is the fourth Wiggles video. The video was released in Australia on August 12, 1996 and was released in the USA in 2000 (despite having a copyright date of 1999).

The video was remade in 2006 as It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (aka Wiggle Around the Clock in the US).

Overview[]

Australia's favourite children's group The Wiggles are back singing and dancing in a brand new video. Starring The Wiggles and their friends Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, Captain Feathersword and Wags the Dog, this fantastic video is full of the songs and music that have made The Wiggles so well loved.

Filming Production[]

July 1996

Song List[]

Note: All songs are taken from the album Wake Up Jeff! except when noted otherwise.

  1. We Like To Say Hello
  2. Henry's Underwater Big Band
  3. Everybody Is Clever (Australian/South African and the worldwide Classic Wiggles YouTube upload fragment Versions)/The Chase (Instrumental) (International version)
  4. Having Fun At The Beach
  5. Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)
  6. Bucket Of Dew ft. Dominic Lindsay
  7. Wake Up Jeff!
  8. Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)
  9. Take a Trip Out on the Sea
  10. Romp Bomp A Stomp
  11. I Can Do So Many Things
  12. Wave to Wags
  13. Pipers Waltz (Instrumental)
  14. Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)

Live Songs[]

  1. Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) (LIVE)
  2. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) (LIVE)

Plot[]

Intro - An alarm clock is flying around ringing while it is on the table. The video title moves up and Jeff was woken up by doing a big yawn after.

The Wiggles introduce themselves. When they ride in there Big Red Car, they like to say hello to everyone.

  • Song 1: We Like To Say Hello - Jeff is driving the Big Red Car which looks like a cardboard cut-out.

Greg and Henry say hello to everyone.

Greg tells the other Wiggles to stand still like a statue. Murray does a strongman pose, Anthony stands on one leg. Jeff sticks his arm out like a showman. Then Greg asks the viewers to tell him if any of the statues are moving. Of course, all the other Wiggles dance around, but when Greg hears from viewers, he turns around and they assume their original positions. On the third try he finds out that the viewers are right. Afterwards, Greg says, "Can you stand as still as a statue? Let's do statues together, everybody" which means it's time to sing.

Anthony and Murray watch kids doing some drawings about the beach with pens and highlighters. Michael is drawing a towel. Peter is drawing Wags the Dog. Leonardo is drawing a person swimming. Nicole is drawing the water and sand. Sian is drawing a person about to jump in the water. Murray introduces the next song.

The Wiggles introduce Captain Feathersword, but he answers with "Bing Bang Bong" and other nonsense phrases. They ask him what it means, and he explains that it's a pirate song. Let's dance a pirate song together!

Anthony and Murray introduce Dominic, who is holding his baby girl Ashleigh with his left arm and a trumpet on his right. Anthony and Murray ask him questions about playing the trumpet and Dominic plays a few motifs. Everyone's wearing a green hat, so It's time to do an Irish dance, featuring a bunch of girls from the dance school.

A alarm clock goes pass and everyone says "WAKE UP, JEFF!" to wake Jeff up.

Jeff asks Dorothy to dance and Dorothy does a few dance steps.

The Wiggles and kids are in a camp site singing about going for a ride on a boat out in sea.

This is Dorothy's favourite dance.

Greg and kids are doing this dance and Greg does tells them things that he can do in this song.

Wags is barking in the background and Anthony says that who is that barking and it's Wags the Dog.

Greg, Anthony and Murray are standing with an empty glass box and hear some snoring. Greg has Anthony and Murray cover the box with a drape, spin it around and chant some magic words. After they say the words "Wiggle waggle!", they lift the drape and Jeff is there, but he's asleep. They ask everyone to wake up Jeff. Jeff wakes up, wondering what he's doing in a box.

Greg's Magic Trick: The Magic Box Trick

After they wake Jeff up, Murray tells him to not fall asleep again because we need him for the next song.

It's time to say goodbye, but Jeff is still asleep on his bed, so The Wiggles decide to do a goodbye dance and they will see if that wakes Jeff up.

Close with the goodbye dance with "Christmas Picnic" for background music. And then, everyone yells the final "WAKE UP, JEFF!" after they clap their hands three times.

Live In Concert clip[]

After the video, it's time to go to a Wiggles concert. The Wiggles are in backstage while they are warming up their voices by singing Rock-A-Bye Your Bear. After their voices are warmed up, they have to make sure that their clothes and hair are alright. Wags the Dog is also in the room, polishing Henry's shoes. Jeff has fallen asleep while sitting on a chair. They call us to Wake Up Jeff. Jeff arises and they're ready to go on stage for the concert.

Anthony asks the audience if they know who is green, has yellow spots, a white floppy hat, carries roses, and sings "Romp bomp a chomp, hey!" The answer, of course, is Dorothy the Dinosaur!

Album[]

WakeUpJeff!(Album)

Wake Up Jeff CD cover (1996)

The "Wake Up Jeff!" album was released on April 4th, 1996 with 27 tracks.

CD Songs[]

Original version[]

TheWigglesinWakeUpJeff!-Original

The Wiggles as seen in the original unreleased version

This video, Wake Up Jeff!, was originally quite different as seen in a rare promo and at the 1996 ARIA Awards. The Wiggles wore T-shirts, shorts and coloured sneakers. The songs were performed on different sets. Additionally, Henry's original costume was used as it was on the cover. It's possible The Wiggles decided to reshoot the video after not liking their new look and decided to go back to the old one.

It is unknown if it was going to have any more or less songs than the released version, as all we see in the trailer are short clips from "Everybody Is Clever", "Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)", "Wake Up Jeff!" and "Dorothy, (Would You Like To Dance?)". It's possible that at the time, these four songs were all they had filmed before re-shooting the video, but there is no evidence supporting or denying this.

Trivia[]

  • This is the first Wiggles video to be released during John Howard's ministry in Australia, The last video during his ministry was Pop Go The Wiggles!
  • The video was first uploaded in fragmented parts on The Wiggles' official YouTube channel as part of Classic Wiggles series from August 17th to September 24th of 2018. It was later uploaded in full with Everybody Is Clever removed on December 21st, 2023.
  • Many fans have speculated that the Betacam SP master of this video is potentially lost/misplaced, since the Classic Wiggles upload is from a VHS master.
  • This is the first video for several things:
    • For the first time, Anthony wears a blue shirt throughout the whole video.
    • Paul Paddick makes his first appearance in The Wiggles media and as Captain Feathersword. Likewise, this is also the first video where Anthony and neither one of his brothers don't play the Captain. In addition, this is also the first appearance of the version of the Captain when he is played by Paddick: The Wiggles say "Ahoy there, Captain Feathersword" instead of just saying hi to him, and Captain replies back "Ahoy there, me hearties", and when he falls down. This is also the first appearance of the Captain's ear ring.
    • The first video where Murray, Greg and Anthony play the Takamine EF325SRC. This is also the first appearance of the Takamine EF325SRC.
    • The first video to not only star younger kids, but to also star older kids.
    • The first video with credits before the video actually ends. This is because of the bonus "LIVE" segment at the end.
    • The first video with post-credits songs, two to be exact.
    • The first video where Greg plays guitar.
  • Murray wears a light red shirt that has a bit of orange.
  • This is the only video featuring Captain Feathersword being played by Paul Paddick with the old era (meaning by the logo) of the Wiggles media (not counting the next video).
  • Anthony wears a watch for the second time after wearing one in Wiggle Time!
  • This is the last video to use the old logo.
  • The location scenes were filmed in Bondi, which is just outside of Sydney.
  • Like Big Red Car, this is the second oldest video to be released on VHS in North America, however, Big Red Car was released on DVD in North America instead of Australia, whereas this video wasn't released on DVD at all.
  • Donna Halloran plays Wags the Dog in "We Like To Say Hello", "Wake Up Jeff!", "Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)", "Pipers Waltz" and "Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)". In "Wave to Wags", Paul Paddick plays Wags the Dog in the studio scenes while Georgia Troy Barnes plays him in the outside scenes.
  • Murray's daughter Georgia Munro-Cook is seen in the outside scenes of "Having Fun At The Beach" and studio songs Take a Trip Out on the Sea, I Can Do So Many Things and Goodbye Dance. Greg's son Blaine Page is also seen in "Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)".
  • Cockroaches member Tony Henry makes a cameo in "We Like To Say Hello", wearing an Elvis costume and wig while holding his son.
  • Greg is shown in the surfboard footage of "Having Fun At The Beach", but not the beach footage.
  • In "Everybody Is Clever", after Anthony sings "Now leave them there for 10 weeks", Murray mouths "10 weeks?!?".
  • In "Wave to Wags", the camera flips over then turns right side up. Having Fun At The Beach has a similar shot, but it is done in editing.
  • This is the first appearance of the Yamaha YC-10.
  • "Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)" is the instrumental to Christmas Picnic, a song from their next album, Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas.
  • Songs on this video were used in the show Mister Moose's Fun Time.
  • This is the only video released in America that didn't receive a DVD release.
  • For copyright reasons, "Everybody Is Clever" was replaced with "The Chase (Instrumental)" (specifically, the "Jeff's Keyboard" version starting at the point where The Wiggles admire the dog statue Wags is at) in versions sold outside of Australia and South Africa. However, the skit/prologue to Everybody is Clever is still used, although cut short after Greg leads into the song.
  • At the end of the title song, The Awake Wiggly Group falls asleep as Jeff yawns and says "Can you please keep that noise down? I'm trying to sleep!"
  • If the audio is converted into OOPS (Out of Phase Stereo), stereo reverb is heard during the dialogue scenes such as at the start. A hidden laughter is also heard during some parts of The Wiggles LIVE.
  • This is the only time that the Yamaha YC-10 has three stars and they were first coloured white.
  • The full version of the video was uploaded on The Wiggles' official YouTube channel, although most of "Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)" was cut out. "Everybody Is Clever" was also cut out, but that was due to royalty concerns.
  • "Pipers Waltz" is listed as "Pipers Waltz (instrumental)".
  • In the live section of the video, the backstage scene includes Henry's second costume. According to the original promo for the video, Henry had his 1st costume when Dorothy had her 3rd. But when The Wiggles head out onto the stage, Dorothy has her 2nd costume on.
  • This is the last video where "wiggle waggle" is said during a magic skit.
  • Near the end of the song "Wave to Wags", a Coca-Cola bottle can be seen.
  • An early offline edit of this video exists without special effects and a rougher sound mix. This edit was featured on the South African release instead of the final edit.
  • Even though Paul Paddick plays Captain Feathersword in the video, Anthony still voiced him in the songs, This would be the same for Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and one song from Toot Toot!.
  • This is the first video to not have a Magic Greg Skit, not counting the Jeff In The Box skit which had Greg Wiggle and not Magic Greg.
  • This is the last video to be released during the Millennials era.

Goofs[]

Video[]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ↑ 12 Aug 1996, Page 5 - The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. ↑ Back cover
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050620011740/http://www.roadshow.com.au/village_product.asp?txtCatalog=Retail%20VHS&txtCategory=&txtProductID=102785
  4. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Wiggles-Wake-Up-Jeff-VHS/dp/B0000520QC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IQL1FBSKSF0A&keywords=the+wiggles+wake+up+jeff+vhs&qid=1679885858&sprefix=the+wiggles+wake+up+jeff+vhs%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1
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