Wiggle Time! (1998) is a remake of The Wiggles' very first video special. It and Yummy Yummy (1998), which were both released on the same day, are arguably among The Wiggles' most popular videos, both having been released numerous times. Some songs were re-recorded for this version, such as "Get Ready To Wiggle" and "Dorothy the Dinosaur". The songs "Ponies" and "Quack Quack" were also added to this version, as well as 3 live songs from the 1997 Big Show.
Overview[]
Hey kids, what time is it? It's Wiggle Time! From way "down under" comes the #1 children's entertainment name in Australia - The Wiggles! Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Greg are ready to teach your kids how to "Rock-a-Bye Your Bear" and "Love it When it Rains." With millions of videos and audio cassettes sold in Australia, now is the time to introduce your children to this hilariously happy "down under" world of musical enchantment.
Song List[]
Note: Re-recorded songs have been denoted by an asterisk (*). Newly added songs have been denoted by a double asterisk (**).
- Get Ready To Wiggle (New Recording, 1996)*
- Here Comes a Bear (from Here Comes a Song)
- Captain Feathersword (from The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate)
- Uncle Noah's Ark (from Here Comes a Song)
- Ponies (from Yummy Yummy)**
- Dorothy the Dinosaur (New Recording, 1997)*
- Whenever I Hear This Music (New Recording, 1997)*
- Henry the Octopus (from Toot Toot)*
- Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (from The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack)*
- I Love It When It Rains (from Here Comes a Song)
- Quack Quack (from Toot Toot)**
- Marching Along (New Recording)*
- Dorothy's Birthday Party (New Recording, 1997)*
Live from The Wiggles Big Show[]
Production[]
The studio scenes were filmed in December 1997, the OB Group was involved in production.
The live footage from the Wiggles Big Show, (the group's first-ever arena tour) towards the end of the video, was filmed at the Sports & Entertainment Centre from November 7 - 8, 1997.[10]
Plot[]
- Title card: A clock is shown ticking and later ringing as the title card shows.
Greg, Murray and Anthony introduce themselves, as well as Jeff, who has fallen asleep. Greg remarks that Jeff is always falling asleep and that they have to wake him up. After Greg, Murray and Anthony wake Jeff up, Anthony tells everyone that it's time to wiggle!
- Song 1: Get Ready To Wiggle (new recording)
Greg introduces the next song about a bear, a kangaroo, a snake and a wombat.
- Song 2 : Here Comes a Bear
Greg is introducing the next segment when Captain Feathersword comes behind each of the Wiggles and tickles them with his feathersword. Anthony introduces Captain Feathersword and Greg tells the Captain "No more tickling", but Captain Feathersword tickles Greg again after he resumes his speech. This repeats a few times. Eventually, Captain Feathersword says, "We should do a pirate dance then." The Wiggles and the Captain start doing this dance.
- Song 3: Captain Feathersword
Murray introduces the next song about a man who lived a long, long, time ago. His name was Noah. He had to save some animals from a flood so he built a boat and called it an ark. Murray then does the animal noises which are the duck, cow, rooster, cat, goat and the donkey. He asks everyone if they can come aboard onto Uncle Noah's Ark with The Wiggles.
- Song 4: Uncle Noah's Ark
Jeff is painting something that he saw on a farm. He shows the picture to the audience... it's a pony!
- Song 5: Ponies
Anthony talks about Dorothy the Dinosaur and introduces the song about the first time they met Dorothy.
- Song 6: Dorothy the Dinosaur (new recording)
- Song 7: Whenever I Hear This Music (new recording)
Jeff pretends to be an octopus and tells everyone that he and the rest of The Wiggles have an octopus friend - Henry!
- Song 8: Henry the Octopus (re-recording from Toot Toot!)
The Wiggles are having a teddy bear picnic and sing a song for everyone.
- Song 9: Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (re-recording from The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack)
- Song 10: Magic
Greg, in his magician outfit, preforms the Colouring Book Trick.
Jeff is with two girls, who are painting by using droppers. Jeff watches the paint come out of the dropper, saying that it looks like rain.
- Song 11: I Love It When It Rains
Anthony and Greg introduce Captain Feathersword, who accidently flings his feathersword into the air a few times while swinging it around. Captain remarks that he's "going a bit quackers", leading into the next song.
- Song 12: Quack Quack
Greg and the other Wiggles lead a line of kids, who are holding presents. Greg says he and the others are going to Dorothy's birthday party.
- Song 13: Marching Along (new recording)
The Wiggles sing a birthday song for Dorothy.
- Song 14: Dorothy's Birthday Party (new recording)
Concert Songs[]
- Song 15: Wave to Wags
- Song 16: Five Little Ducks
- Event: Curtain Call with Officer Beaples/Song 17: Wiggly Medley
Album[]
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The "Wiggle Time!" album was released on August 30, 2000 with 27 tracks. It is basically a reissue of Here Comes a Song, with some tracks added or removed. Only the new recordings of Get Ready To Wiggle, Rock-A-Bye Your Bear and Dorothy the Dinosaur are featured, with the other songs re-recorded for the video remaining the original 1992 versions. The American version, "Let's Wiggle" fixes this error.
CD-Only Songs[]
- We're All Friends
- Little Brown Ant (on TV Series 5 and Splish Splash Big Red Boat)
- The Gypsy Rover (on Episodio 25 and Lachy!)
- Bound For South Australia
- The Magic Kindy
- Poesje Mauw
- Lechoo Yeladim (on The Wiggles Show! TV Series 5 and Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party)
- Dancing Ride
- I Look In The Mirror (on Episodio 8, Episodio 15, and Episodio 21)
- Daniel and Molly
- A Family Song
- Fly Through the Air
- The Dreaming Song (on Dorothy the Dinosaur TV Series 2)
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- Mitten The Kitten (on Episodio 7)
Trivia[]
- This special was completed in post-production on March 16, 1998.[11]
- This is the first remake video, along with Yummy Yummy, which was released the same day.
- Ponies and Five Little Ducks make their video debuts.
- The audio mix of the Australian releases and the Hong Kong VCD, is made up of mono tracks panned slightly to the left or right, except for the concert footage which is proper stereo. In addition, Murray is seen miming guitar in Marching Along, but no notes are heard. The North American VHS and UK Double Bill VHS and DVD, as well as the original UK VHS, have every studio song re-dubbed with their stereo album versions (although Quack Quack remains in mono) and Marching Along is given a guitar track. Because of this change, the sound effects in Whenever I Hear This Music are gone and The Wiggles' roaring at the end of Here Comes a Bear and the clapping in Captain Feathersword are replaced. The North American DVD also uses this version, however only the left channel is heard (as evidenced by some of the kangaroo sounds in Here Comes a Bear being muted), making it mono once again.
- This is the first Wiggles video to use the 1998-2008 ABC For Kids promo.
- This is the first video to use Warner Bros. sound effects since The Wiggles Movie.
- This is the first video that didn't end with The Wiggles saying goodbye.
- This is the first video to be released by Lyrick Studios in the USA and Kids Motion International in Canada, it's also the first video to be released in the USA and Canada overall.
- Because of this, it's also the first video to feature trailers of Barney.
- This is the first video (besides the Wiggles Movie) that the Wiggly Medley is featured in.
- The video was first uploaded as fragmented parts on YouTube starting February 3, 2019 as part of the Classic Wiggles series. It was later uploaded in full on November 10, 2023.
- The US DVD was released 9 days before Santa's Rockin was released in Australia.
- The opening would later be used for Wiggles previews from Lyrick Studios.
- Most songs from this video and Yummy Yummy would later be used for the Wiggles Time segments on Playhouse Disney.
- Songs from this video can be seen in Series 1 and Series 2.
- In the US small clamshell VHS back cover, Wave to Wags is listed as Wave To Wags The Dog.
- The concert songs from this video were later re-used on the VHS release of Barney's Musical Castle.
- Five Little Ducks wasn't filmed in the studio until Racing to the Rainbow.
- The white duck costume in Five Little Ducks was later reused in El Pato from 2004's Cold Spaghetti Western, although in El Pato, Brett Clarke wore the costume, whereas in Five Little Ducks from this video, Anthony's brother Paul Field wore it.
- This is The Wiggles' first video remake, the others include Yummy Yummy on the same year as this video, Here Comes The Big Red Car and It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (also known as Wiggle Around the Clock in America) in 2006, Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles in 2014 and Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! in 2017.
- Just like Yummy Yummy, The 1998 remake was more successful than the 1993 release, as it was released in markets outside Australia and New Zealand and uploaded on YouTube as part of Classic Wiggles starting on February 4, 2019.
- When Wave to Wags begins, the shot of a little girl in the audience waving hello is actually from We Like To Say Hello.
- For the North American DVD, if the sub-menus are left sitting for too long, they take you back to the main menu.
- During Dorothy's Birthday Party, the cube has The Wiggles Logo.
- The only instrument Anthony plays in the video is the Takamine EF325SRC. Which he played in Ponies, I Love It When It Rains, Wave to Wags and Five Little Ducks live.
- During Five Little Ducks live, Jeff played the water trickling sound effect on the Kurzweil K2000 VP.
- This is the first Wiggles VHS in the UK to be distributed by Disney Videos.
- It's also the first Wiggles VHS in Canada to be distributed by Lyrick Studios and Kids Motion International.
Goofs[]
- In the inlay, Anthony Field's name was credited for Get Ready To Wiggle and in the Wiggly Medley section, John Field's name wasn't credited for Hot Potato.
- On the US original Lyrick Studios VHS back cover, Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?) is listed separately instead of it being under the Wiggly Medley.
- On the US smaller VHS clamshell front cover, It said "13 Wiggly-Giggly Songs!", It was actually 16 songs in this video.
- The back covers of the US and Canadian releases all have inaccurate song lists (except for the DVD by NCircle Entertainment, which abridges it to just four songs "and lots, lots more!"). In the United States, the original large clamshell VHS, as well as the later slipcase VHS and DVDs, the song list seems to be based on the 1993 version of Wiggle Time!, as it mistakenly lists Sing a Song of Polly and the songs added to the 1998 version (except for Wave to Wags) are added in at random. Later copies of the large clamshell, as well as the small clamshell VHS, have the correct list of songs except for the fact that it lists Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?) as a separate song before Wiggly Medley. While the Canadian DVD features the same list as the US one, the Canadian VHS releases are the most inaccurate as they are the 1993 song list verbatim, meaning Ponies, Quack Quack and the live songs are not listed at all, while Fruit Salad is.
- On the UK VHS back cover, Wiggly Medley was misspelled as Wiggley Medley.
- The Wiggles Logo was removed from the spine in the US HIT Entertainment DVD.
- In the prologue to Captain Feathersword a boom mic is visible when Greg says "No more tickling" for the second time.
- The edge of the set can be seen at the top corner of the screen in some shots of Dorothy's Birthday Party.
- Camera lens can be seen at the bottom right corner for Quack Quack in some shots.
- On the Australian releases, the fade effect wasn't added after Rock-A-Bye Your Bear to transition to Magic. This was fixed on the UK and US versions.
Similarities to 1993 Version[]
- Jeff is sleeping at the very beginning before Get Ready To Wiggle.
- The first four songs, in this particular order, are Get Ready To Wiggle, Here Comes a Bear, Captain Feathersword and Uncle Noah's Ark.
- Greg introduces Here Comes a Bear.
- The Wiggles lean in close to each other and towards the camera as they growl like a bear at the very end of the song.
- In the intro for "Captain Feathersword", the captain himself sneaks up on The Wiggles and tickles them. As Greg then tries to say something important, he is interrupted by Captain Feathersword's tickle. Greg asks Captain Feathersword if he tickled Greg. Captain Feathersword says no. Greg then asks the others, who reply yes. Greg tells the captain no more tickling. After this happens again, they do a pirate dance.
- Murray introduces Uncle Noah's Ark with the same dialogue and does the actions for each animal.
- Anthony introduces Dorothy the Dinosaur, which is the sixth song in both.
- There is no intro for Whenever I Hear This Music.
- Jeff introduces Henry the Octopus, which follows Whenever I Hear This Music and preceeds Rock-A-Bye Your Bear in both and he wears an extra purple shirt pretending to be an octopus, then pulls his shirt down to show that it's just him and introduces his friend who is an octopus, looking to his left afterwards.
- The Wiggles and some kids have a teddy bear's picnic. Greg says that he knows a song about teddy bears and invites us to join in on the singing and actions.
- Greg does the magic colouring book trick.
- At least one Wiggle is with some kids making paintings using droppers. Then shows us how the paint falling out of the dropper looks like rain.
- The Wiggles and some kids (whom are carrying presents) sing Marching Along as they march to the party. Everyone stops as the Wiggle in front tells us that they are going to Dorothy's Birthday Party, then invites us to come along too. Right after that, everyone continues marching and singing.
Video[]
See Also[]
References[]
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- ↑ 2 Oct 1999, Page 162 - The Daily Herald
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- ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-wiggles/1997/sports-and-entertainment-centre-melbourne-australia-33f6a0e9.html
- ↑ Master slate