Getting Strong! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 2006)
Getting Strong! is the twenty-seventh video released by the Australian children's group The Wiggles. It was released on May 16, 2007 in Australia (thirteen days after the album of the same name was released) and would reach the American and British markets over the next three years. The video mainly focuses around staying fit and is the first video to feature Sam Moran (who was previously a backup singer for the group) as the yellow wiggle after the departure of founding member Greg Page in November 2006. Production on the video began in early 2006 when Page was still in the group.
Background
The video was meant to be a tie-in with Series 6, which was revealed to be titled "Wiggle and Learn" in an April 2006 interview with Page[1]. The original version of Getting Strong was slightly different than what was released in May 2007. A lot of sets and backdrops were used instead of the green/blue screen backdrop that the final video would use. Instead of lip-syncing and miming to a pre-recorded track, the music was performed live and Greg sang all the vocals, making it the first time a Wiggles video (that's not a concert film) used live music and vocals[2]. Among the musicians that did the live music were John Field (Anthony Field's older brother), Dominic Lindsay (who previously did the trumpet for Bucket Of Dew from the Wake Up Jeff! album and video)[3], Tony Henry (the group's session and touring drummer from 1994 to 2007) and George Tseros (who would play bouzouki in future releases until 2014).
Greg Page's Departure
It's unknown how many songs were filmed as while the filming of Getting Strong! progressed, the group toured the United States[4] and would debut only one song from Getting Strong!, Hello, We're The Wiggles. Page's health would take a sharp decline, before the RI Ryan Center performance on August 22, 2006, Page collapse before the 2:30pm performance and was rushed to the hospital for dehydration and as a result, Sam Moran took over for the show and after fainting again before the 3:00pm and 6:30pm performances[5], Page left the tour and returned to Australia to recover and Moran took over for the rest of the tour[6]. After returning to Australia, Page would be diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance which caused the fainting spells before the shows[7]. With the release of the Racing to the Rainbow album on August 28th and video on September 7th, the Racing to the Rainbow Tour was announced in early July 2006[8]. On November 30, 2006, Page announced in a video his departure and announced that Moran would take his place[9][10]. With Page out, production on Getting Strong! was restarted and the debut of Series 6 was delayed from a previously announced early-2007 release[11] to Spring 2008[12]. Page would eventually recover from the condition and returned to the group for a short time in 2012.
Availability
Four songs are known to have been recorded, videos for Getting Strong! and Smell Your Way Through The Day would be release as a iTunes bonus for the Hits And Rarities compilation album that was released in October 2012. A version of Getting Strong! with Greg's vocals was included on the album, but while the instrumental was recorded in 2007, Greg's vocals was recorded in 2012.[13] In the digital booklet of the album, a picture from the video for A Frog Went A Walking was shown off. 62 seconds of a recording of the song that didn't make it into the final video called "We're All Friends" (which appeared on the group's second album Here Comes A Song) was included as a CD in the book of the same name (which would be released after Greg's departure). Although it never made it into the final version of the video, it's likely a video for this may've been recorded and the video's audio would've been used for the CD Book. When Greg was still with the group, they did a song for a commercial for ABC Kids, the song turned out to be an early version of Wiggle and Learn (the theme song for Series 6), with a different backing track that contained additional instruments and alternative back-up vocals throughout.[14] The commercial with the song and its alternate portions included can easily be found online. No audience recordings of the Hello, We're The Wiggles performance have appeared online. A song that made it onto the Getting Strong! album but not the video is Follow The Leader, the video for Follow The Leader would be part of the You Make Me Feel Like Dancing video. The instrumental track for Follow The Leader was created while Page was still in the group, making it very likely they recorded the song with Greg on vocals and after he left, they recycled the instrumental when they did the track with Sam.[15] No other footage from the original version of Getting Strong! has been released outside of the above mentioned.
In November 2020, Anthony Field revealed on Twitter that footage from Wiggle and Learn with Greg has been located in the group's archives[16][17]. It's possible that the original version of Getting Strong! is among the footage found as the video is a series tie-in. He has expressed interest in releasing the original version of Getting Strong! as part of the group's Unreleased NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Specials series on YouTube.[18]
Gallery
Songs
Images
See Also
TV
- The Wiggles Live at Disneyland (found Australian TV special; 1998)
- The Wiggles (partially found alternate versions of episodes of children's show; 1998-2011)
- The Wiggles Series One (partially lost deleted scenes of children's live-action series; 1997-1998)
- The Wiggles Show (partially found animated songs from children's show; mid-2000s)
- The Wiggles (lost unaired ABC pilot featuring children's group; 1995)
- The Wiggles Show (found Latin American adaptation of children's series; 2006)
- Let's Wiggle (partially found short series for children's band; 1997-1999)
- The Wiggles (partially found Taiwanese adaptation of children's series; 2003-2007)
- Wiggle and Learn (lost unreleased original version of children's TV series; 2006)
- A Wiggly Postcard from Asia (lost TV special of The Wiggles tour; existence unconfirmed; 2003)
- Dorothy The Dinosaur (lost episodes of unreleased fourth season of children's TV series; 2016)
- The Wiggles (lost Indian adaptations of children TV series; existence unconfirmed; 2006)
- Wiggle Time! (found Canadian-exclusive Wiggles series; 2019)
Concerts
- The Wiggles Big Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 1997)
- Wiggly Party: Live in Concert (partially found footage of Vodafone Arena performance; 2001)
- Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; existence unconfirmed; 2000)
- Toot Toot Show! (partially lost footage of The Wiggles performance; 1998)
- The Wiggles - NASA (lost footage of National Aeronautics and Space Administration performance; 2004)
- Santa's Rockin'! Live In Concert (partially lost footage of Sydney Entertainment Centre performance; 2004)
- Wiggly Safari Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles performances; 2002)
- Wiggledancing! Live On Stage (partially found pro-shot recordings of concert tour; 2006)
- Greatest Hits In The Round (partially lost Acer Arena performance of The Wiggles; 2010)
- Christmas Celebration (lost footage of The Wiggles final performance; 2012)
- The Wiggles LIVE In Concert Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert (partially found footage of Indian Ocean earthquake fundraiser performance; 2005)
- The Wiggly Big Show Tour (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; 1999)
- The Wiggles Reunion Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 2016)
- Pop Go The Wiggles Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles tour; 2007)
- Sailing Around The World Live! (partially lost recordings of The Wiggles tour; 2005-2006)
- Big Red Car Tour (partially found footage of The Wiggles concert tour; 1995-1996)
- The Wiggles (lost video recordings from Wonderland Sydney concert; 2001)
Videos
- Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
- Wake Up Jeff! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
- A Wiggle Tale: Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (found promotional VHS tape; 1999)
- The Wiggles (partially lost widescreen versions of children's videos; 2002-2004)
- Dancing Ride (found The Wiggles music video; 2001)
- LIVE Hot Potatoes! (found uncut version of Wiggles video; 2005)
- Overture Introductions (lost pre-show videos from The Wiggles tour; 2004)
- The Wiggles (partially found unreleased music videos of children's group; 2000s-2020s)
- Toot Toot! (found original version of The Wiggles video; 1998)
- Pop Go The Wiggles (lost unreleased version of The Wiggles video; existence unconfirmed; 2006)
Music
- Get Ready To Wiggle! (lost "The Wiggles" UK album; 1999)
- The Wiggles Show (partially lost songs from Latin American children's series; 2006)
- The Wiggles (partially lost re-recorded instrumentals of Australian children's band; 2000s)
Miscellaneous
- WiggleWorld (partially found interactive children's website; 2000-2001)
- Neighbours "Episode 3896" (partially found episode of Australian soap opera; 2001)
- Mister Moose's Fun Time (partially found spin-off of "The All New Captain Kangaroo" Fox Kids children's series reboot; late 1990s)
- Preschool Musical... On a Stick (partially lost PBS Kids Sprout "High School Musical" parody; 2008)
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060425222914/http://www.popentertainment.com:80/thewiggles.htm
- ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/anthony_wiggle/status/1394212586980200448?lang=bg
- ↑ https://twitter.com/GregPage_Yellow/status/1271781759311417346
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060722025929/www.thewiggles.com.au/country/usa/concerts.html
- ↑ https://wiggles.fandom.com/wiki/Wiggledancing!_Live_On_Stage#Trivia
- ↑ https://www.today.com/id/wbna15956876
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiTLqYx895E&ab_channel=TheWigglesFanClubChannel
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060707130711/http://www.thewiggles.com.au/country/australia/racingtotherainbow.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiTLqYx895E&ab_channel=TheWigglesFanClubChannel
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1801117.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060425222914/http://www.popentertainment.com:80/thewiggles.htm
- ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200805/20080512.htm
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUmegm1wenU&ab_channel=TheWiggles-Topic
- ↑ https://wiggles.fandom.com/wiki/Wiggle_and_Learn_(song)#Trivia - One of the additional instruments heard notably during the intro and chorus sections was an electric guitar, while some of the alternative back-up vocals were provided by Sam Moran.
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQAhMBKnBOY/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Anthony_Wiggle/status/1326023692120252423
- ↑ https://twitter.com/anthony_wiggle/status/1368003933231226881?lang=en
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Anthony_Wiggle/status/1367740182019985418