Yule Be Wiggling (video)

"Yule Be Wiggling" is the 11th Wiggles video released on the 16th October 2001 for the Australian VHS & DVD and on the 22nd October 2001 for the American VHS and exaclty one year later on DVD, with two months and two days before Christmas Eve (and extended to an extra day if one counts Christmas Day, two months and three days) at the time of the original release. This is also the second Christmas video, after Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and before Santa's Rockin'!.

Song List

 * Note: All songs are taken from the album of the same name, except where noted otherwise.
 * 1) Doing a Dance
 * 2) Just Can't Wait For Christmas Day
 * 3) Here Come The Reindeer
 * 4) And the World Is One On A Christmas Morning
 * 5) Murray's Christmas Samba
 * 6) Jimmy The Elf
 * 7) Curoo Curoo
 * 8) Christmas Around The World
 * 9) Wags Loves To Shake Shake
 * 10) *Jingle Bells (performed in introduction scene)
 * 11) Angels We Have Heard On High
 * 12) Christmas Polka
 * 13) Decorate The Tree
 * 14) A Scottish Christmas
 * 15) Come On Everybody (We'll Tap For You) (new song)
 * 16) Yule Be Wiggling

Cast

 * Murray Cook: Murray Wiggle
 * Jeff Fatt: Jeff Wiggle
 * Anthony Field: Anthony Wiggle
 * Greg Page: Greg Page
 * Captain Feathersword: Paul Paddick
 * Dorothy the Dinosaur: Feenie 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
 * Henry's Voice: Jeff Fatt
 * Santa's Voice: Paul Paddick
 * Elve Voices: Paul Paddick
 * Dominic Lindsay
 * Margeret Lindsay
 * Maria Lindsay

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
 * 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
 * Make Up: Neena Adams
 * Wardrobe: Angela Kyral
 * Set Design: Freenage Animation, Andrew Horne
 * Set Construction: CFX Design, Chris Burdys, Timothy Gurner
 * Riggers: Robert Santucci, Martin Roper

Release Dates
Australia: October 16, 2001

America: October 22, 2001 (VHS), October 22, 2002 (DVD & VHS re-release)

Album Release
The album "Yule Be Wiggling" was a released in December the year before.

CD Songs

 * The Little Drummer Boy
 * The First Noel

Narration Transcript
No songs were featured, but each menu had either Paul Paddick or Greg Page give a narration at the beginning.

Trivia

 * This is the last video for Wags' 3rd costume.
 * This is the last time The Wiggles use the 1997-era skivvies and pants. From 2002 onwards, the pants have trim of the specificated color then on and the skivvies have turtlenecks.
 * This is the third video to have prologues on all the songs, after Yummy Yummy in 1994 and It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! in 2000.
 * Among the toys in Jimmy The Elf are a Big Red Car and Dorothy the Dinosaur.
 * This is the last video to have a flower logo at the end from (TV Series 2).
 * This is also the last video to be directed by Chisholm McTavish.
 * In And the World Is One On A Christmas Morning, the Wiggles sing the song in studio, with clips of various children and other relatives of The Wiggles and their staff, including Greg's daughter, Madison Page, Murray's daughter Georgia Munro-Cook, son Hamish Munro-Cook, as well as many of Anthony's nieces and nephews.
 * Angels We Have Heard On High and the closing scene were likely filmed at the same time, due to all of the same people being in the same location.
 * The CGI animation for Jimmy The Elf is similar to the animation of Caveland.
 * This is the first holiday video released on DVD.
 * This was the first non-concert video to be filmed at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
 * Like It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! this video had the same background animation as TV Series 2.
 * This video aired on Playhouse Disney on December 24, 2002, followed by Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas.
 * 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 Come On Everybody (We'll Tap for You) which the part with Santa tap dancing really fast had sound effects from Warner Bros, Series 2000 and Hanna-Barbera.
 * This video was released in North America 6 days before it was officially released in Australia.
 * 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 after Lyrick Studios ended.
 * Dorothy the Dinosaur has 2 voices in this video, one by Carolyn Ferrie hostess of Kaz the Cat in The Wiggles TV Series 1, and the other by Elisha Burke classmate of Simon Pryce the future red Wiggle.

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 in the end credits.

Contents VHS

 * 1) Coming to Theaters
 * 2) Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius Teaser
 * 3) Jonah A VeggieTales Movie Teaser
 * 4) Coming on Videocassette
 * 5) The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown Trailer
 * 6) The Amazing Carnival Of Complaining Trailer
 * 7) Now Available on Videocassette
 * 8) Nick Jr. VHS Trailer (Little Bill and Dora the Explorer) (Now Available)
 * 9) Dorothy's Dance Party Music Video
 * 10) The Wiggles Videos Trailer
 * 11) The Little Bear Movie VHS & DVD Trailer
 * 12) Rugrats in Paris: The Movie VHS & DVD Trailer
 * 13) Rugrats: 10th Anniversary: Decade in Diapers: Collector's Edition and All Grown Up VHS Trailer
 * 14) Paramount Feature Presentation/FBI Warning
 * 15) Paramount Home Video Logo (1996)
 * 16) Nick Jr. Kids Opening Bumper (Blue's Clues, Little Bill and Little Bear Variant)
 * 17) Yule Be Wiggling
 * 18) Credits
 * 19) The Wiggles Logo
 * 20) Nick Jr. Productions (1999)
 * 21) Nick Jr. Kids Closing Bumper (Blue's Clues, Little Bill and Little Bear Variant)
 * 22) Nick Jr. Hippos Logo
 * 23) Nickelodeon Bone Logo
 * 24) Paramount Home Video Logo (1996)

Contents DVD

 * 1) FBI Warning
 * 2) Paramount Home Video Logo (90th Anniversary) (2002)
 * 3) Nick Jr. Snow Logo
 * 4) Jonah A VeggieTales Movie Trailer
 * 5) Charlotte's Web 1 and 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure VHS & DVD Teaser Trailer
 * 6) Kipper Playtime Trailer
 * 7) Bob The Builder A Christmas To Remember Trailer
 * 8) Bob The Builder Bob Saves The Day Trailer
 * 9) Angelina Ballerina Friends Forever Trailer
 * 10) Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius VHS & DVD Trailer
 * 11) Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon: Holiday VHS & DVD Trailer
 * 12) The Wiggles Wiggly Safari Trailer
 * 13) Barney's Christmas Star Trailer
 * 14) 3-2-1 Penguins The Amazing Carnival of Complaining and Runaway Pride at Lightstation Killowatt Trailer
 * 15) Larry-Boy and the Angry Eyebrows and Leggo My Ego Trailer
 * 16) Jonah Sing Along Songs And More Trailer
 * 17) The Star of Christmas Trailer
 * 18) The Super Fantastic Veggie Fan Club Promo
 * 19) SpongeBob SquarePants Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies Trailer
 * 20) DVD Menu
 * 21) Yule Be Wiggling
 * 22) Credits
 * 23) The Wiggles Logo
 * 24) Nick Jr. Productions (1999)
 * 25) Nickelodeon Haypile Logo