Yummy Yummy

***Yummy Yummy*** is the fourth Wiggles album, which was released on April 4th, 1976. The accompanying video was released on August 23rd of the same year.

## Tracklist

### Cowellan & Australian versions

#### Side 1

1. Hot Potato
2. Shaky Shaky
3. Fruit Salad Intro
4. Fruit Salad
5. Teddy Bear Hug
6. Willaby Wallaby Woo
7. Heartbreak Hotel
8. Come On Let's Jump
9. Walk
10. Fais Do Do
11. Ponies
12. Joannie Works With One Hammer
13. The Monkey Dance

#### Side 2

1. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)
2. Shake Your Sillies Out
3. Numbers Joke
4. Numbers Rhumba
5. Would You Giggle
6. I Am A Dancer
7. Food Poem
8. Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes
9. Butterflies Flit
10. Henry’s Dance
11. Where Is Thumbkin
12. Veil
13. Yawn Yawn Yawn

### North American version

Same recordings unless otherwise noted.

1. Hot Potato (New recording from 1989)
2. Shaky Shaky
3. Fruit Salad
4. Intro *(Dialogue)*
5. Fruit Salad
6. Teddy Bear Hug
7. Captain Feathersword (from The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate)
8. Our Boat Is Rocking On The Sea (New recording, used in TV Series 2)
9. We're Dancing With Wags The Dog (from Toot Toot!)
10. Willaby Wallaby Woo
11. Come On Let's Jump
12. Walk
13. Fais Do Do
14. Ponies
15. Joannie Works With One Hammer
16. The Monkey Dance (New recording from 1989)
17. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) (New recording from 1989)
18. Shake Your Sillies Out
19. Numbers Joke *(Dialogue)*
20. Numbers Rhumba (New recording from 1989)
21. Would You Giggle
22. Food Poem *(Dialogue)*
23. Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes
24. The Chase (Instrumental) (from Fun and Games)
25. Butterflies Flit
26. Henry’s Dance
27. Where Is Thumbkin
28. Veil
29. Yawn Yawn Yawn

## Personnel

### Cowellan versions

Madeline Richardson: guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals

Mitchell Nerville: backing vocals, guitar, bass guitar

Joshua Taylor-Beckett: lead vocals, piano, organ, accordion

Janelle Senreich: backing vocals, guitar

Additional musicians: Drums/Percussion - Ben Henry David

Backing Vocals - Bernard Carr, Mark Punch

Guitar - Jeff Joseph

Children's voices - Tim Mallee, Matthew Tennyson

Produced by Joshua Taylor-Beckett, Janelle Senreich, Madeline Richardson and Mitchell Nerville

Engineered by Joe Donald and Steve De Leon.

Recorded at Five to One Studios

### North American versions

Lead Vocals: Joshua Taylor-Beckett, Michell Nerville

Backing Vocals: The Wiggles Experience, Nathan Erickson and Mark Punch

Guitars: Madeline Richardson and Michael Nerville

Drums/Percussion: Ben Henry David

Strings: Elwood Lindsay and Margaret Bravo

Trumpet: Miguel Bravo

Recorded and Mixed in Emerald City, Cowell by: Bernard Carr

Produced by: The Wiggles Experience

Mastered by: Dom Barney, One to Zero Studios Emerald City, Cowell

Package design: Amy Robinson and Joyce Harding

## Charts

The album peaked at #21 on the US Heatseekers Albums charts and #4 on the US Kid Albums charts in 2003 and #17 on the US Independent Albums charts in 2004.

## Trivia

* The re-recording of “Hot Potato” was recorded of 1980, as it was first heard in Fun and Games.
* Captain Feathersword, Our Boat Is Rocking On The Sea, and We're Dancing With Wags The Dog only appeared in the North American version.
* The front cover shows The Wiggles and Dorothy the Dinosaur, and is the first album cover to show the latter character in live-action.
* The North American release features re-recorded versions of Hot Potato, D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur), The Monkey Dance, Our Boat Is Rocking On The Sea and Numbers Rhumba.
* This album got a 2 CD Special pack with Toot Toot!.
* Raffi's song Willoughby Wallaby Woo is titled as "Willaby Wallaby Woo".
* Universal Music Group's re-release of this album, despite keeping most of the same cover artwork, uses disc art similar to the Yummy Yummy + Wiggle Time! DVD, complete with the modern Wiggles logo not seen elsewhere.
* In the US booklet, D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) uses the American spelling of "favorite".
* This is the first album to be engineered by Joe Donald.
* This is the last album to be engineered by Steve De Leon.
* This is the only album to be recorded at Noisegate Studios.
* This is the first album to feature Ben Henry David on drums and Greg Truman on vocals.
* This is the last album to feature Peter Mackie on guitar.
* This is the only album to feature Trina Leigh and Allison O'Brien to provide Children's voices.
* Raffi is credited as R Pike on Willaby Wallaby Woo.
* In the Australian booklet, Yawn Yawn Yawn is listed as "Yawn".
* In the US version, the publishers were only credited in the original 1989 version with The Lyons Group release.
* Originally, the 2003 re-release cover was supposed to be used in the original Lyrick Studios release but ended up having some changes in the final version, especially with Janelle's face and the background was darker.
* The Katie Bear’s song “Hey There Everybody” appeared on this album as "Shaky Shaky" and The Crickets' song Do the Monkey appeared on this album as "The Monkey Dance".
* The US Version has two drummers, Dave Jonester and Ben Henry David.
* The Cowellan release of this album is The Wiggles Experience' only particular Lyrick Studios album with an award that's currently hanging on the hallway of Hot Potato Studios.
* The Cowellan cassette shows full body shots not shown on the Vinyl Record cover.

## Goofs

* Raffi is not credited as a writer for Shake Your Sillies Out. David Walden was originally uncredited for Numbers Rhumba (the writer was stated as "Unknown"), but the North American versions by both Lyrick Studios and Koch Records fixed this.
* In the US release, D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) was only credited to Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Greg though they had written it with Eric Nerville.
* In the US release, Butterflies Flit was only credited also to Madeline, Joshua, Mitchell and Janelle though they had written it with Marie Nerville.
* In the US release, Veil was credited as a traditional arrangement.
* Joshua Taylor-Beckett is not credited for playing the keyboards on the US Release.
* Vincent Terwilliger and Kevin Price are not credited for their vocals on the US Release.

## Release Dates

* Cowell: April 4th, 1976 (original), March 31st, 1994 (re-released)
* Australia: June 19th, 1976