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Here Comes a Song is The Wiggles
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are a children's group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album...

' second album, released in 1992.

This was the first time The Wiggles appeared in their coloured skivies. Phillip Wilcher
Phillip Wilcher
Phillip Wilcher is an Australian pianist and composer, also known as the Fifth Wiggle, since he was one of the founding members of the Wiggles, Australia's richest entertainers, who left the group after the group's debut album in 1991....

, who left shortly after the release of the band's first album from 1991, was supposed to stay as a behind-the-scenes writer for this album, but at a Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....

 concert, was told by Anthony Field
Anthony Field
Anthony Donald Field AM is an Australian musician and actor. He is best known as a member of the children's group The Wiggles and the 1980s and 90s band The Cockroaches with his brothers, Paul and John and another future Wiggle, Jeff Fatt.Field was the youngest of seven children, and grew up in...

 that the album had been recorded while Wilcher was away, and so he was not needed.

Tracklist

  1. "We're All Friends" - 1:52
  2. "Little Brown Ant" - 1:06
  3. "I Knew A Cricket" (Spoken) - 0:16
  4. "Uncle Noah's Ark" - 2:27
  5. "Dorothy's Birthday Party" - 2:28
  6. "Bert The Wombat" (Spoken) - 0:12
  7. "Here Comes A Bear" - 1:25
  8. "Henry The Octopus" - 1:43
  9. "Poesje Mauw" - 1:02
  10. "I Love It When It Rains" - 1:11
  11. "Three Animals" - 1:37
  12. "Sing A Song Of Polly" - 1:07
  13. "Come And Sail The Sea" - 1:28
  14. "A Pirate's Life" (Spoken) - 0:22
  15. "Bound For South Australia" - 1:21
  16. "The Gypsy Rover" - 2:13
  17. "A Family Song" - 2:06
  18. "Daniel And Molly" - 2:07
  19. "I Look In The Mirror" - 1:44
  20. "Fire Engines" - 0:43
  21. "Dungley Wobble" - 1:00
  22. "Lechoo Yeladim" - 1:34
  23. "Dancing Ride" - 2:04
  24. "Whenever I Hear This Music" - 1:13
  25. "Tidy Up Song" - 1:56
  26. "Fly Through The Air" - 1:14
  27. "The Magic Kindy" - 1:30
  28. "Rainy Day" (Spoken) - 0:17
  29. "Glush Swish Mush Nump" (Spoken) - 0:20
  30. "It's Been Raining All Day" (Spoken) - 0:17
  31. "The Dreaming Song" - 1:40
  32. "The Lion And The Unicorn" - 1:48
  33. "Mitten The Kitten" - 0:59

Members

  • Murray Cook
    Murray Cook
    Murray James Cook AM is an Australian vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as one of the founding members of the children's band The Wiggles...

     - guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals, Chief Kabasa player and voice of "Dorothy the Dinosaur"
  • Jeff Fatt
    Jeff Fatt
    Jeffrey Wayne "Jeff" Fatt AM , is a Chinese Australian musician and actor. He is best known as a member of the children's band The Wiggles and the 1980s and 90s band The Cockroaches...

     - accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

    , piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

    , xylophone
    Xylophone
    The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...

    , glockenspiel
    Glockenspiel
    A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...

    , Emax, vocals, hand claps and "Jerome's" voice
  • Anthony Field
    Anthony Field
    Anthony Donald Field AM is an Australian musician and actor. He is best known as a member of the children's group The Wiggles and the 1980s and 90s band The Cockroaches with his brothers, Paul and John and another future Wiggle, Jeff Fatt.Field was the youngest of seven children, and grew up in...

     - jaw harp, tin whistle
    Tin whistle
    The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...

    , vocals, tambourine
    Tambourine
    The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....

    , bodhrán
    Bodhrán
    The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...

    , digeridoo
    Didgeridoo
    The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...

    , guitar, hand claps and voice of "Henry the Octopus"
  • Greg Page
    Greg Page
    Gregory John "Greg" Page AM is an Australian musician and actor. He is best known as the original lead vocalist and a founding member of the children's band The Wiggles...

    - guitar, vocals and hand claps

Additional musicians

  • Jane Bezzina - backing vocals on "We're All Friends", "Little Brown Ant", "Come and Sail the Sea", "Daniel and Molly" and "The Magic Kindy"
  • Rosemary Richardson - backing vocals on "Henry the Octopus", "A Family Song" and "Dungley Wobble"
  • Peter Mackie - guitar on "The Gypsy Rover"
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