Toot Toot! facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Toot Toot! |
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 10, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | December 1997 | |||
| Studio | Festival and Electric Avenue Studios, Sydney Australia | |||
| Genre | Children's music | |||
| Length | 43:09 | |||
| Label | ABC, Lyrick Studios, Koch | |||
| Producer | The Wiggles | |||
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Toot Toot! is a super fun album by the Australian band The Wiggles. It was their ninth studio album and came out in 1998. This album was so good that it even won an award called the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album in 1998! It was released by ABC Music and distributed by EMI.
Contents
Songs on the Album
This album is packed with 25 awesome songs and spoken parts! Most of the songs were written by the Wiggles themselves, or they are traditional songs that the Wiggles arranged.
All songs written and composed by (or trad. arr. by) M.Cook/J.Fatt/A.Field/G.Page except noted below.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" | 2:22 |
| 2. | "Look Both Ways" | 1:42 |
| 3. | "Dorothy the Dinosaur (Tell Me Who Is That Knocking?)" | 1:24 |
| 4. | "Food Poem" (spoken) | 0:12 |
| 5. | "Food Food Food (Oh How I Love My Food)" | 2:08 |
| 6. | "John Bradlelum" | 1:14 |
| 7. | "Captain Feathersword's Raincoat Story" (spoken) | 0:56 |
| 8. | "Go Captain Feathersword, Ahoy!" | 2:13 |
| 9. | "Bathtime" | 2:09 |
| 10. | "Wah Hoo Hey, I'm Combing My Hair Today" | 2:00 |
| 11. | "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" | 2:23 |
| 12. | "Silver Bells That Ring in the Night" | 2:12 |
| 13. | "Zardo Zap" | 2:41 |
| 14. | "Henry the Octopus" | 1:26 |
| 15. | "Move Your Arms Like Henry" | 1:49 |
| 16. | "Do The Wiggle Groove" | 2:18 |
| 17. | "Balla Balla Intro" (spoken) | 0:15 |
| 18. | "Balla Balla Bambina" | 2:10 |
| 19. | "I Climb Ten Stairs" | 1:11 |
| 20. | "We're Dancing with Wags the Dog" | 1:22 |
| 21. | "Wags the Dog, He Likes to Tango" | 1:04 |
| 22. | "Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)" | 1:55 |
| 23. | "Rocket" | 1:50 |
| 24. | "Officer Beaples' Dance" | 1:41 |
| 25. | "Let's Have a Ceili" | 2:04 |
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Total length:
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43:09 | |
Who Played on the Album?
The Wiggles themselves played a big part in making the music!
The Wiggles Members
- Murray Cook: He sang backing vocals and played guitar and bass.
- Jeff Fatt: He also sang backing vocals.
- Anthony Field: He sang backing vocals and played guitar.
- Greg Page: He was the main singer on the album.
Other Musicians
Many other talented musicians helped make the album sound great:
- Mark Punch, Paul Paddick, and Kevin Bennett sang backing vocals.
- Tony Douglass played guitar.
- Tony Henry and Paul Hester played drums and percussion.
- Maria Schattovits played the violin.
- Margaret Lindsay played the cello.
- Dominic Lindsay played the trumpet.
The Toot Toot! Video
| Toot Toot! | |
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| Directed by | Chisholm McTavish |
| Produced by | Paul Field |
| Starring | |
| Music by | The Wiggles |
| Editing by | Steve Rees |
| Distributed by | Roadshow Entertainment / ABC Video (#101484) |
| Release date(s) | 17 October 1998 |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
Toot Toot! was also released as a video! It was the seventh video by The Wiggles. It first came out in Australia on October 17, 1998. Later, in 1999, it was re-released with some updates to match their TV show. In the United Kingdom, this video was called Big Red Car.
Video Song List
Here are the songs featured in the Toot Toot! video:
- Look Both Ways
- John Bradlelum
- Henry's Underwater Big Band (only in the 1999 version)
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
- Food, Food, Food (Oh How I Love My Food)
- Go Captain Feathersword, Ahoy!
- Bathtime (only in the 1998 version)
- Do the Wiggle Groove
- Dorothy the Dinosaur (Tell Me Who Is That Knocking?)
- Balla Balla Bambina
- I Climb Ten Stairs
- Move Your Arms Like Henry
- Silver Bells That Ring in the Night
- Wags the Dog, He Likes to Tango
- We're Dancing with Wags the Dog
- Officer Beaples' Dance
- Zardo Zap
- Let's Have a Ceili
- Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
Video Cast
The video featured all your favorite Wiggles and their friends!
- Anthony Field
- Jeff Fatt
- Murray Cook
- Greg Page
- Paul Paddick as Captain Feathersword
- Leeanne Ashley as Dorothy The Dinosaur
- Edward Rooke as Wags The Dog
- Elisha Burke as Henry the Octopus
- Leanne Halloran as Officer Beaples
- Leanne Halloran and Elyssa Dawson as Zardo Zap
- Mitchell Butel as Raiffe the Mechanic
Many dancers also helped make the video super fun, including Sam Moran who later became a Wiggle! There were also toddlers in the "Food Food" song and Anthony Wiggle's puppies, Fergus and Pasqua Field.
Video Release and Updates
The Toot Toot! video first came out on October 17, 1998.
In 1999, The Wiggles released an updated version of the video. They changed some of the songs and redid scenes with new animations and backgrounds to match their TV show. For example, the song "Bathtime" was replaced with a new version of "Henry's Underwater Big Band."
The video was dedicated to the memory of Anthony Field's father, John Patrick Field. He used to play John the cook in the original 1994 video Yummy Yummy.
The 1999 version of the video was later released on DVD in Australia in 2004. This DVD included extra features like a Wiggly Work storybook and two episodes from their Lights, Camera, Action TV series.
Images for kids
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US cover
