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Any Wiggles dvd would be hard to keep on the shelf nowadays... why? because If there were ever a greatest fun-filled band for preschoolers today, it would be The Wiggles. The Wiggles are originally from Sydney Australia. The original band members lineup were Greg, Murry, Anthony and Jeff. Due to health problems Greg was replace by Sam.
The Wiggles are known for there great music and teaching methods towards kids around the world. In there concerts they get not only the kids involved but the Mom and Dads participating as well.
Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pop band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Field and Page at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become pre-school teachers.
A school project led to the recording of their first album and tour in 1991. As a result of their background, the group combines music and theories of child development in their videos, television programs, and live shows.
Since their inception, other regular characters (Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog and a troupe called "The Wiggly dancers" have toured with them and appeared in their CDs, DVDs, and television programs.
Their debut album, The Wiggles, sold 70,000 copies, while its single, "Here Comes a Song," sold 35,000 copies alone. The follow-up albums Here Comes a Song (1992), Yummy Yummy (1993), Big Red Car (1995), and Wiggly Wiggly Christmas (1996) also achieved similar success.
Also, the Wiggles won two Australian Performing Right Association (APRA) songwriting awards for Best Children's Song of 1994, 1995, and 1996. Big Red Car, Wake Up Jeff!, and Toot Toot! also won Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards for Best Children's Release in 1995, 1996, and 1998, respectively.
Videos such as Wiggle Time, Yummy Yummy, and Big Red Car all achieved double-platinum status while the band's fourth video, Wake Up Jeff!, sold over 200,000 copies in 1996.
With the release of The Wiggledance in 1997, the Wiggles had sold almost one million videos and their two books, Let's Wiggle and Dorothy the Dinosaur's Picture Book, were in multiple editions. The Wiggles released their first film, Dorothy the Dinosaur in 1997 and have toured New Zealand and the U.K. twice, as well as the U.S. six times.
