Yule Be Wiggling is the eleventh Wiggles video special released on October 22, 2001 in Australia, after an earlier release in the United States and Canada on October 16, 2001. It's also the second Christmas special, after Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and before Santa's Rockin'!.
Overview[]
It's Christmas time in Wiggle World and it's such a special time! Help decorate Captain Feathersword just like a Christmas tree! Travel to Bethlehem and sing the Carol of the Birds to the Baby Jesus. Dance with Santa Claus as he does the Christmas Polka. Hey, let's do the Samba with Murray. Aye yie yie! Travel to the North Pole and meet our friend Jimmy the Elf. See Wags the Dog do the shake shake! Dorothy the Dinosaur and Henry the Octopus will be there too! So join Greg, Murray, Jeff and Anthony this Christmas and we know you'll have fun, you'll be singing and dancing and Yule Be Wiggling!
Production[]
The video was filmed in January 2001 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre[1]. This video was filmed after the Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show Tour.
In one scene, there was footage of Captain Feathersword running was reused from the TV Series 2 episode "Work", which was filmed in 1999.
This video was filmed before Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party, but released afterwards, and is technically the last video to be directed by Chisholm McTavish.
Song List[]
- Note: All songs taken from the album of the same name, except where noted otherwise.
- Doing a Dance
- Just Can't Wait For Christmas Day
- Here Come The Reindeer
- And the World Is One On A Christmas Morning
- Murray's Christmas Samba
- Jimmy The Elf
- Curoo Curoo
- Christmas Around The World
- Wags Loves To Shake Shake
- Jingle Bells (performed in the introduction scene)
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Christmas Polka
- Decorate The Tree
- A Scottish Christmas
- Come On Everybody (We'll Tap For You) (new song)
- Yule Be Wiggling
Plot[]
The video starts when The Wiggles logo spins around from larger to smaller. Santa pulling his reindeer from his sleigh while yellow sparkles appear as the video title appears. A present falls of from Santa's sleigh and make a parachute. The Wiggles arrived at the show by falling from the sky in a giant gift-box. The present opens when the balloons come out, until The Wiggles introduce themselves and wish a Merry Christmas to all.
Song #1: Doing a Dance
The Wiggles talked about why they can't wait for Christmas day, Anthony loves the food, Jeff's long sleep on Christmas day, Murray playing his guitar and sing lot of Christmas carols, and Greg spending the whole day with his family and friends.
Song #2: Just Can't Wait For Christmas Day
Song #3: Here Come The Reindeer
Song #4: And the World Is One On A Christmas Morning
Song #5: Murray's Christmas Samba
Murray introduced to a friend from North Pole named Jimmy the Elf. Jimmy's problem that he can't stop sneezing all day long and interrupt his work.
Song #6: Jimmy The Elf
Song #7: Curoo Curoo
Song #8: Christmas Around The World
Song #9: Wags Loves To Shake Shake
More coming soon!
Credits[]
Cast[]
- Murray Cook: Murray Wiggle
- Jeff Fatt: Jeff Wiggle
- Anthony Field: Anthony Wiggle
- Greg Page: Greg Wiggle
- Captain Feathersword: Paul Paddick
- Dorothy the Dinosaur: Feonie Wade
- Henry the Octopus: Reem Hanwell
- Wags the Dog: Andrew McCourt
- Special Guest: Morgan Crowley
- Choreographer: Leeanne Ashley
Uncredited Cast[]
- Dorothy's Voice: Carolyn Ferrie and Elisha Burke
- Wag's Voice: Jeff Fatt and Mic Conway
- Henry's Voice: Jeff Fatt
- Santa's Voice: Paul Paddick
- Elves Voices: Paul Paddick
- Dominic Lindsay
- Margaret Lindsay
- Maria Schattovits
Dancers[]
- Rebecca Knox
- Ben Murray (Also appeared as Santa Claus)
- Corrine O'Rafferty
- James Stevenson
- Naomi Wallace
- Larissa Wright
Children Dancers and Extras[]
- Seren Anu
- Kuiam Anu-David
- Lauren Baldacchine
- Chelsea Cranefield
- Keiran Cranefield
- Kelly-Rose Daiziel
- James Day
- Jessica Fawcett
- Carla Field
- Clare Field
- Dominic Field
- John Paul Field
- Joseph Field
- Seamus Field
- Luke Gaffney
- Sarah Geel
- Sarah Hayes
- Julia Herichly
- Cooper Jackson
- Jacob Kyral
- Sinead Kyral
- Ashleigh Lindsay
- Kiara Lindsay
- Sian Lindsay
- Keelin MacDonald
- Erin Moffat
- Georgia Munro-Cook
- Hamish Munro-Cook
- Sam McFadden
- Michael McFadden
- Genevieve McFadden
- Madison Page
- Ellen Parker
- Josephine Perez
- Rebecca Perez
- Nichole Rogers
- Alexandra Rowley
- Liliana Schattovits
- James Shoulder
- Special Appearances: Aunty Kay Ritchie, Fred Gaffney
Crew[]
- Executive Producers: The Wiggles, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page
- Producer: Paul Field
- Director: Chisholm McTavish
- Production Co-ordinator: Kim Peters
- Director of Photography: Borce Damcesky
- Technical Director: Douglas Kirk
- Gaffer: Graham Mulder
- Gaffer Assistants: Ted Williams, Ben Dougart, Ian Barwick
- Camera: John Abbot, Peter Boully, Anthony Polkinghorn, Craig Watkins
- Off-line Editor: Steve Rees
- On-Line Editors: Douglas Kirk, Chisholm McTavish
- Audio post: Craig Abercrombie
- 3D Animator: Tom King, Sean Maynard
- Additional Footage: (And the World Is One On A Christmas Morning Craig Abercrombie, Paul Field, John Field
- Sound Recordist: Craig Abercrombie
- Boom Operator: Alex Keller
- Runner: Roberta McNarma
- Makeup: Neena Adams
- Wardrobe: Angela Kyral
- Set Design: Freenage Animation, Andrew Horne
- Set Construction: CFX Design, Chris Burdys, Timothy Gurner
- Riggers: Robert Santucci, Martin Roper
Album[]
The album Yule Be Wiggling was released the year before.
CD Songs[]
- The Little Drummer Boy
- The First Noel
TV Airdates[]
Trivia[]
- The Playhouse Disney version of this video special omits the 2nd half of the Special Thanks credits to the endboard.
- This video marked:
- The latest appearance of Wags' 3rd costume.
- The second and last video to have Tom King as the 3D animator before he became a storyboard director and writer for the Nickelodeon TV show, SpongeBob SquarePants from 2005-2015.
- The last time The Wiggles would use their original BONDS long sleeved tees as their skivvies and plain black pants. Starting from 2002, the pants would have a trim of the specific colour than on and the skivvies would have turtlenecks. In that case it's the second and last Wiggles Christmas video to have them, first being Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1999).
- Their original BONDS skivvies were made out of cotton as experts warned the group that wearing these long sleeved tees over time could make tiny holes caused by their belts. This could mean according to Anthony during the 2022 Today Show interview he commented "We sweated so much in these skivvies, and at one show, Murray was sweating, and one child in the audience yelled out "Murray's melting!" and the other people in the audience thought that we might have to update them."
- The last Wiggles video where Carolyn Ferrie and Elisha Burke provided Dorothy's voice.
- Ferrie, however, would return as Dorothy’s voice beginning with Santa's Rockin'! in 2004 and continue the role until 2009.
- The last Wiggles video to have the bee and flower endboard from TV Series 2.
- The first Christmas video of the 2000's.
- The first Christmas video to have Santa Claus' voice by Paul Paddick.
- It's the third Wiggles video to have prologues on all the songs after Yummy Yummy in 1994 and Wiggly Wiggly World! in 2000.
- Officer Beaples & the Wagetts are absent.
- "Here Come The Reindeer" and "Curoo Curoo" were first performed in the 2000 Carols in the Domain.
- Among the toys in "Jimmy The Elf" are a Big Red Car and Dorothy the Dinosaur.
- In "And the World Is One On A Christmas Morning", The Wiggles sing the song in the studio, with clips of various children and other relatives of The Wiggles and their staff. This includes Greg's daughter, Madison Page, Murray's daughter Georgia Munro-Cook, son Hamish Munro-Cook and many of Anthony's nieces and nephews.
- Angels We Have Heard On High and the closing scene were likely filmed back-to-back due to all of the same people being in the same location.
- The CGI animation for "Jimmy The Elf" is similar to that of "Caveland".
- This is the first Wiggles video to be released in North America the same year as the Australian release.
- It's also the first Wiggles video to be released in North America before Australia.
- It was the first holiday video released on DVD.
- The US VHS was re-released in October 2002 (alongside the reprint of Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas).
- It was the first non-concert video to be filmed at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
- This was the first video to credit The Wiggles as individual characters.
- Like It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!, this video had the same background animation as TV Series 2.
- The Red Starry Guitar was originally going to be in the video along with the Red Takamine Guitar and the Black Takamine Guitar.
- In the Song selection menu of the DVD, this is the second time that the Red Starry Guitar is seen on the menu. The first time was Wiggly TV in the "Sing Along with The Wiggles" menu.
- Like It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!, this video had numerous songs with sound effects, like during "Come On Everybody (We'll Tap For You)", in which the part with Santa tap-dancing had sound effects from Warner Bros, Series 2000 and Hanna-Barbera.
- The North American release was six days before the Australian release.
- Like the 1999 version of Wiggly Wiggly Christmas, the Bee and Flower logo in this video does not have any sound effects.
- In America, This was the first video to be released by HIT Entertainment, 2 months after it acquired Lyrick Studios.
- Dorothy the Dinosaur has two voices in this video: Carolyn Ferrie and Elisha Burke.
- During the intro of Christmas Polka, Santa Claus mentioned Little Greg from The Little Wiggles.
- The 2001 US VHS cover art uses the same picture from The Wiggly Big Show.
- In early new copies of the AUS video tape from select stores, you would receive a "Bonus Wiggly Christmas Growth Chart"
- The VHS inside cover advertises the following videos:
- Left side
- The Wiggly Big Show, Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party, It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
- Right side
- Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas, The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video, Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate
- The DVD inside cover advertises for Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party and Wiggly TV.
- This is the only North American Wiggles VHS to have different covers for both releases instead of 1 release. In addition both use the same master.
- The 20th Century Fox reprint disc for the US DVD is black.
- Wags' previous costume is seen in the video, due to it being filmed before Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party.
- This is the last Wiggles video where Anthony has brown hair.
- This is the only North American DVD to have narration for the menus.
- The Australian VHS was released on the same day Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party got released on DVD.
- The US 2002 reprint VHS reuses the font from the 2001 VHS on the tape label, but the Canadian copy doesn't.
- On November 22, 2023, this video was uploaded to The Wiggles' YouTube channel.
Goofs[]
- In the song credits, John Field's name is listed on "Just Can't Wait For Christmas Day", whereas Dominic Lindsay and Margaret Lindsay's are listed on "Murray's Christmas Samba".
- In the song credits, "Wags Loves To Shake Shake" is not included.
- During "Decorate The Tree", the star on Captain Feathersword's hat after he puts it on falls off. The following shot shows it on again.
- The back cover of the Hong Kong DVD mentions there is are DVD-Rom games but there isn't any.
Video[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/the-wiggles-53d7aff1.html
- ↑ Commercial breaks via Drewbie's Nostalgic's YouTube channel
- ↑ The Disney Channel Broadcast Archives
- ↑ Internet Archive upload of the tape
- ↑ 27 Nov 2003, Page 5 - The Fresno Bee
- ↑ Commercial breaks via Meredith_Vintage's YouTube channel
- ↑ 20 Dec 2003, Page 44 - Public Opinion
- ↑ 21 Dec 2003, Page 58 - The Daily Spectrum
- ↑ 25 Dec 2003, Page 13 - The Times-News
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