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Santa's Rockin'! is the eighteenth Wiggles video special from 2004 and the third Christmas special, after Yule Be Wiggling.

Overview[]

Ring-A-Ding-A-Ding Dong! The bells are ringing for Christmas Day and The Wiggles are joined by that Great Big Man In Red, Santa Claus! Wags can't stop barking with excitement, Henry the Octopus is the champion Christmas wrapper and Dorothy loves her Christmas roses. It's time to combine your two favourite things, The Wiggles and Christmas, and tap your mistletoes everyone, because Santa's Rockin'!

Production[]

The video for Santa’s Rockin’! was filmed primarily in March 2004[7]. The footage of Murray in New York was filmed in November 2003 sometime before or after The Wiggles' appearance in the 2003 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Songs[]

Note: All songs are taken from the album of the same name.

  1. Captain Feathersword's Christmas Dance
  2. Ring-A-Ding-A-Ding Dong!
  3. Great Big Man In Red (featuring John Fogerty)
  4. Away in a Manger
  5. Christmas Barcarolle (Let The World Rejoice)
  6. Henry The Champion Christmas Wrapper
  7. This Little Baby Is Born Again (featuring Ross Wilson) (cut from the YouTube upload)
  8. Noche De Paz (Silent Night)
  9. Dorothy's Christmas Roses
  10. O Come All Ye Faithful
  11. Wags Stop Your Barking, It's Almost Christmas Day! (featuring Barry Williams)
  12. Rockin' Santa! (featuring John Fogerty)

CD Songs[]

Plot[]

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“Santa’s Rockin’!” aspect ratio comparison

  • The video was completed on July 7, 2004.[16]
  • This video marked:
    • The first appearance of Anthony's daughter Lucia.
    • The last Christmas video to be released on VHS.
    • The last Christmas video featuring Greg as the Yellow Wiggle. Although, he guest stars in the 2017 version of Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas!, wearing his same yellow skivvy from 2001-2006, singing Go Santa Go with the Current Wiggles.
    • The last Wiggles screener VHS to be released in America.
    • The only video which doesn't have a title card.
    • The final video to be shot on tape. Starting with Sailing Around the World, videos would be shot digitally.
    • The second US/CAN Christmas release to come in a red case.
    • The first video where Ben Murray's hair is black rather than blonde.
    • The second and last Christmas video of the 2000s.
    • The only Christmas video to have the 2001 skivvies.
    • The last Christmas video to have Ben Murray.
  • Jeff's baby nephew, Oscar Ng and Anthony's wife Miki Field and daughter Lucia Field are seen in the end credits.
  • This is the fourth video (and second Christmas special) to be released in the USA before Australia.
  • Henry the Octopus does not speak in this video.
  • Paul Paddick does Santa Claus' dubbed voice.
  • The prologue for This Little Baby Is Born Again is the only part of this video to have cartoon sound effects, while the rest of the video has no cartoon sound effects whatsoever.
  • On the USA/Canada DVD and VHS release, there is a commercial for the "Wiggling Dancing Guitar" toy.
  • This video never appeared in a TV Series.
  • To Our Lady Guadalupe is sung by the Moguels before Noche De Paz (Silent Night).
  • Like Wiggle Bay and Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!, the video was filmed and made in 16:9 widescreen, with all home video releases using a cropped 4:3 full screen master since standard "full screen" TVs were still more common at the time. However, unlike those videos, where the widescreen editions were reserved exclusively for digital TV usage, the widescreen version of this video was available to purchase digitally on iTunes for a while, before being removed from the platform sometime in 2016.
    • Additionally, whenever footage from this video are used in other Wiggles media (with the exception of 15 Years of Wiggly Fun!), the widescreen master is featured.
    • The widescreen version was later used for the YouTube channel upload of the video.
  • In the prologue of "Dorothy's Christmas Roses", Dorothy's voice is by Carolyn Ferrie, but in the song her voice is by Jacqueline Field.
  • In the scene where Murray visits Jackie and Christopher Cannizzaro in New York, you can see that he is wearing a different belt buckle and different trousers.
  • The set was used in Nick Jr. UK promo from 2004, the set was also used for The Wiggles congratulating Steve Irwin on This Is Your Life.
  • The screener VHS has no previews at the end whatsoever.
  • During production of this video, The Wiggles asked Barry Williams to be a part of it and he said yes. So Greg and Paul Field, the Wiggles' manager, picked Barry up from his hotel.
  • In North America, this is the last Wiggles Christmas video to be released by HIT Entertainment.
  • The UK DVD files are titled WIGGLES_SANTAS_ROCKIN_UK.
  • The UK DVD was burned on August 9, 2006.
  • This is the only video in which Jeff doesn't fall asleep.
  • Santa is listed as a special guest vocalist in the musicians credits.
  • Ryan De Saulnier wears glasses in this video, apart from the epilogue scene.
  • The DVD's Photo Gallery shows a deleted scene from Away in a Manger where Rachel Tibbertsma as one of the angels sees baby Jesus just before Genevieve McFadden as another angel comes in.
  • This video was uploaded to The Wiggles' YouTube channel on December 1, 2023.
  • In the YouTube upload of this special, the song This Little Baby is Born Again was cut out.
  • This and Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas were the only HIT Entertainment Wiggles DVD’s to not be re-released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
  • This is the last Wiggles video in North America to have its trailer voiced by Dean Barnett.
  • According to the insert, this video was originally going to be released on October 19th, but it was pushed up to September 28th instead.
  • The scenes with John Fogerty were shot in America, with Fogerty, The Wiggles and the Wiggly Dancers being greenscreened onto the set back in Australia.
  • This is the only Wiggles release by Warner Home Video not to have an opening animation on the main menu.

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