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Introduction
The Wiggles are a children's musical group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher. In 2006, Page was forced to retire from the group due to illness and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran, whilst Wilcher left the group prior to them achieving success.
They are considered as Australia's leading children's entertainers and were honored in December 2005 at the Australian Export Awards as the overall winners for building a global business.
The Wiggles are easily recognizable, particularly by children, by their distinctively colored skivvies. The performing Wiggles originally comprised Anthony Field (the Blue Wiggle), Murray Cook (the Red Wiggle), Greg Page (the Yellow Wiggle) and Jeff Fatt (the Purple Wiggle). On occasion, Wiggles producer Paul Field, brother to Anthony, performs as the Blue Wiggle when Anthony has been unable to tour with the group. Longtime understudy Sam Moran has stood in for Page as the Yellow Wiggle when Page had been unable to perform due to ill health and has now taken over as the Yellow Wiggle.
The History
Motivated to utilize early educational concepts to create high-quality children's music, the fellow classmates created music project for their classes and produced their first album in 1991, dedicated to Field's deceased niece. They needed a keyboardist, so Field asked his old band mate, Fatt, for his assistance in what they thought would be a temporary project. The group received songwriting help from John Field, Anthony's brother and former band mate, and from Phillip Wilcher whom they met at Macquarie; however, after participating in their first album and hosting the group's first recording sessions in his Sydney home, Wilcher chose to leave the group to pursue a more serious career in classical music.
The Wiggles first hit the Australian children's entertainment scene in 1991 and have now achieved renown beyond Australian shores. They have joined street parades in New York and performed on television, stage, and variety shows in a number of countries around the world.
The group has franchised their concepts to other countries, developed Wiggles sections in amusement parks in Australia and the US, and won several recording industry awards. The Wiggles have been called "the world's biggest preschool band" and "your child's first rock band". The group has achieved worldwide success with their children's albums, videos, television series, and concert appearances.
Successes all along
The Wiggles were named Business Review Weekly's top-earning Australian entertainers for three years in a row and earned AU$50 million in 2006. They have earned seventeen gold, twelve platinum, three double-platinum, and ten multi-platinum awards for sales of over 17 million DVDs and four million CDs. By 2002, The Wiggles had become the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) most successful pre-school television program.
Conclusion
The four friends met when studying early childhood development and formed the mad musical group, performing to nurseries in New South Wales. Their goofy combination of music, dance and magic encourages children to reach out and interact with the world around them. They get everybody parent and kids alike, and singing along.
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