The Wiggles

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The Wiggles are a children's musical group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. In 2006, Page was forced to retire from the group due to illness and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran.

Originally, Field and Fatt were in the pop 80's band, The Cockroaches. 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.

They have released a handfull of DVD's, videos, and CD's. The group has also franchised their group in other countries such as UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Japan. They have won several awards for their music and performances.

In November of 2006, Greg Page was diagnosed with a disease that did not allow him to walk. He was forced to leave the band. He was replaced with Sam Moran, a former Wiggly Dancer and singer. He has been featured in two Wiggles DVD's so far: Getting Strong (2007), and Pop Go the Wiggles (2008).

General early history of the Wiggles: 1991 - First wiggles album 1992 - "Here comes a song" album 1993 - First video ("Wiggle time") - Captain Feathersword is played by Anthony and Henry's voice is anthony's. 1995 - Wags is introduced in the video "big Red car", as is the big red car (a cardboard cutout). Jeff drives at this stage. 1996 - Anthony decides to stick with a blue shirt after alternating between Green/Blue on all previous material. Paul Paddick is Captain Feathersword. Anthony gives up drumming after the 1996 Wake up Jeff video in all visuals. 1997 - Probably as a development for the upcoming Wiggles Movie, the Wiggles gain logos on their shirts and unified belts (with the logo). The Wiggles logo also changes from a handwritten orange colour to the now-used yellow shape. The big red car evolves into a full size realistic golf-buggy style model. Greg now drives (as seen as in the Wiggles movie and Tv series). Wiggledance video cover features new logo however content features old uniform, wheras wiggly christmas video is vice verca. 1998 - The big red car evolves yet again into its contemporary style (design changes at Wiggles automotive) 1999 - Anthony starts being seen as drumming again (Wiggly wiggly world video).