Wiggle Bay is the fifteenth album released by The Wiggles. It was released in Australia on September 30th, 2002 alongside the VHS of its tie-in video special and released in America on May 6th, 2003.
The album also features the six songs that appeared in the Space Dancing! video.
Tracklist[]
- Introduction - 0:31
- Wiggle Bay - 2:00
- Introduction - 0:45
- Dancing In The Sand - 1:47
- Introduction - 0:10
- Swim Like A Fish - 2:23
- Introduction - 0:20
- C'est Wags, C'est Bon - 1:36
- Introduction - 0:19
- Dance A Cachuca - 2:17
- Introduction - 0:05
- Rolling Down The Sandhills - 0:59
- Running Up The Sandhills - 0:32
- Introduction - 0:14
- Let's Make Some Rosy Tea - 1:59
- Introduction - 0:18
- Zing Zang Wing Wang Wong - 2:09
- Introduction - 0:56
- Watching The Waves - 1:00
- Introduction - 0:10
- Let's Have A Barbie On The Beach - 2:13
- Introduction - 0:05
- Eagle Rock - 3:38
- Dance The Gloomies Away - 2:19
- What's This Button For? - 2:00
- The Zeezap Song - 2:03
- Going Home - 2:46
- Fergus' Jig - 1:32
Personnel[]
The Wiggles are Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field and Greg Page
- Vocals: Greg Page, Paul Paddick, Emma Pask
- Guitar: Murray Cook, Anthony Field, John Field, Terry Murray
- Bass: Murray Cook, Chris Lupton
- Drums: Tony Henry
- Brass: Dominic Lindsay
- Percussion: Steve Machamer
- Piano: Steve Blau
- Backing Vocals: The Manzilla Singers (The Wiggles, Paul Paddick, Craig Abercrombie, Sam Moran & Simon Pryce)
- Narration: Jacqueline Field, Joseph Field
- Musical Arrangements: The Wiggles, Dominic Lindsay
- Recorded and mixed at Electric Avenue Studios, Sydney, Australia by Robin Gist
- Mastered at Studio 301 by Don Bartley
Trivia[]
- Singer-songwriter and musician Ross Wilson is featured as a guest star on the cover version of his song "Eagle Rock", but was not credited for his vocal and guitar work on the album.
- This was the first album to credit Emma Pask as a vocalist, following her uncredited appearance on the prior album, Wiggly Safari.
- This was the first album to feature Craig Abercrombie and Simon Pryce as backing vocalists, and the first to refer to the backing vocalists as "The Manzillas".
- This was the last album to feature Paul Paddick as a lead vocalist until Here Comes The Big Red Car.
- This was the first album to feature pianist Steve Blau and bassist Chris Lupton as musicians.
- Audio clips from the tie-in video were used as the introduction tracks for each song on the album, as well as additional newly recorded narrations.
- All of the pre-song introduction tracks were not mentioned on either release of the album, resulting in seventeen total tracks being listed in the tracklist rather than twenty-eight.
- All of the Space Dancing! songs (except for "Fergus' Jig" and "Eagle Rock") sound different on this album compared to how they sound in the final video, with the main differences being that the album's versions of each song has slightly different audio mixing and musical arrangements (the album versions of "Dance The Gloomies Away" and "What's This Button For?" have a different drum track, the latter song has extra trumpet added) and additional backing vocals from Simon Pryce. This is likely because the video used early demo mixes of the songs during its production that were not replaced with their finished versions in time for its 2003 release.
- This was the first album to be engineered by Robin Gist.
- In North America, this was the first Wiggles album to be co-distributed by Koch Records.
- According to the Wiggly Safari Show Programme, the album was originally going to be released in North America in June 2003, but was released earlier instead.
Mistakes and Errors[]
- Jeff Fatt was not credited for playing keyboards.
- Craig Abercrombie was not credited for recording and mixing the album.
- On the back cover of the Australian cassette, the ABC Video logo was featured instead of the ABC Music logo.