Wake Up Jeff! (video)

**Wake Up Jeff! is the fourth Wiggles video. The video was released in Australia on August 5, 1996 and was released in the USA in 2000.**

**The video was remade as It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (aka Wiggle Around the Clock in the USA) in 2006.**

**Song List**

Note: All songs are taken from the album Wake Up Jeff! except when noted otherwise.

1. We Like To Say Hello
2. Henry's Underwater Big Band
3. Everybody Is Clever (Australian/South African and the worldwide Classic Wiggles YouTube upload Versions)/The Chase (Instrumental) (International version)
4. Having Fun At The Beach
5. Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)
6. Bucket Of Dew/Paddy Condon From Cobar
7. Wake Up Jeff!
8. Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)
9. Take a Trip Out on the Sea
10. Romp Bomp A Stomp
11. I Can Do So Many Things
12. Wave to Wags
13. Pipers Waltz (Instrumental)
14. Goodbye Dance (Instrumental)

### Live Songs

1. Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) (Live)
2. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) (Live)

**Album**

The "Wake Up Jeff!" album was released on April 4th, 1996 with 27 tracks.

### CD Songs

* Guess What? (Seen in the remake of this video)
* A Frog Went A Walking (Seen in the remake of this video)
* Baby Baluga (AUS Version)
* Chu-Lu-Lu (AUS Version)
* Name Game
* House On The Hillside
* Havenu Shalom Alechem (On the re-recorded Yummy Yummy video in 1998 and the It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! album and video in 2006)
* Five Little Ducks (Seen in Wiggle Time! in Concert)
* Windmills

**Original version**

This video, **Wake Up Jeff!**, was originally quite different as seen in a rare promo & during the nominations clip for Best Children's Album at the 1996 ARIA Awards. The Wiggles wore T-shirts, shorts and coloured sneakers. The songs were performed on different sets. Additionally, Henry's original costume was used as it was on the cover. It's possible The Wiggles decided to reshoot the video after not liking their new look and decided to go back to the old one.

It is unknown if it was going to have any more or less songs than the released version, as all we see in the trailer are short clips from "Everybody Is Clever", "Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)", "Wake Up Jeff!" and "Dorothy, (Would You Like To Dance?)". It's possible that at the time, these four songs were all they had filmed before re-shooting the video, but there is no evidence supporting or denying this.

**Release Dates**

**United States** (Lyrick Studios) - April 4, 2000 (large clamshell VHS), December 12, 2000 (small clamshell VHS)

**Canada** (Lyrick Studios/Kidsmotion International) - April 3, 2001

**South Africa** (Ster-Kinekor Home Video) - 1998

**Australia** - August 5, 1996, July 2000 (release VHS)

**Trivia**

* So far, this is the very first Wiggles Screener VHS to be privately released in America.
* For the first time, Anthony wears a blue shirt throughout the whole video.
* Murray wears a light red shirt that has a bit of orange.
* Paul Paddick makes his first appearance in The Wiggles media and as Captain Feathersword. Likewise, this is also the first video where Anthony and neither one of hisbrothers don't play the Captain. In addition, this is also the first appearance of the version of the Captain when he is played by Paddick: The The Wiggles say "Ahoy there, Captain Feathersword" instead of just saying Hi to him, and Captain replies back "Ahoy there, me hearties", and when he falls down. This is also the first appearance of the Captain's ear ring.
* This is the only video featuring Captain Feathersword being played by Paul Paddick with the old era (meaning by the logo) of the Wiggles media (not counting the next video).
* Anthony wears a Watch for the 2nd time after wearing on in Wiggle Time!
* This is the first video where Murray, Greg and Anthony play the Takamine EF325SRC. This is also the first appearance of the Takamine EF325SRC.
* This is the first video to not only star younger kids, but also to feature older kids.
* This is the last video to use the old logo
* This is the first video with credits before the video actually ends.
* The outside scenes of Having Fun At The Beach and Wave to Wags were filmed in Bondi, which is just outside of Sydney.
* Like Big Red Car, this is the second oldest video to be released on VHS in North America, however, Big Red Car was released on DVD in North America instead of Australia, whereas this video wasn't released on DVD at all.
* Donna Halloran plays Wags the Dog in We Like To Say Hello, Wake Up Jeff!, Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?), Pipers Waltz and Goodbye Dance (Instrumental). In Wave to Wags, Paul Paddick plays Wags the Dog in the studio scene while Georgia Troy Barnes plays him in the outside scenes.
* Murray's daughter Georgia Munro-Cook is seen in the outside scene of Having Fun At The Beach and studio songs Take a Trip Out on the Sea, I Can Do So Many Things and Goodbye Dance. Greg's son Blaine Page is also seen in Goodbye Dance (Instrumental).
* Cockroaches member Tony Henry makes a cameo in We Like To Say Hello, wearing an Elvis costume and wig while holding his son.
* Greg is shown in the surfboard footage of Having Fun At The Beach, but not the beach footage.
* In Everybody Is Clever, after Anthony sings "Now leave them there for 10 weeks", Murray mouths "10 weeks?!?".
* This was the first video to be shot on location, which this video was filmed on location at Bondi in New South Wales.
* In Wave to Wags, the camera flips over then turns right side up. Having Fun At The Beachhas a similar shot, but it is done in editing.
* This is the first appearance of the Yamaha YC-10.
* The music for the Goodbye Dance (Instrumental) is the instrumental to Christmas Picnic, a song from their next album, Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas.
* The Live in Concert clip was filmed before this video and is said to be from the Big Red Car Tour.
* Songs on this video were used in the show Mister Moose's Fun Time to premiere the show to America.
* This is the only video released in America that didn't receive a DVD release.
* For unknown reasons, Everybody Is Clever is replaced with The Chase (Instrumental)(specifically, the "Jeff's Keyboard" version starting at the point where The Wiggles admire the dog statue Wags is at) in versions sold outside of Australia. However, the statue skit/prologue to Everybody is Clever is still used, although cut short before Greg leads into the song by saying "Let's be statues together, everybody."
* At the end of the song of the same name, The Awake Wiggly Group falls asleep as Jeff yawns and says "Can you please keep that noise down? I'm trying to sleep!"
* If the audio is converted into OOPS (Out of Phase Stereo), stereo reverb is heard during the dialogue scenes such as the one where The Wiggles say hello. A hidden laughter sound effect is also heard during some parts of The Wiggles LIVE such as when The Wiggles, Wags and Henry leave backstage.
* This is the only time that the Yamaha YC-10 has three stars and they were first coloured White.
* The full version of the video was uploaded on The Wiggles' YouTube channel, although the credits during the song Goodbye Dance (Instrumental) were cut out.
* Pipers Waltz is listed as "Pipers Waltz (instrumental)".
* In the live section of the video, the backstage scenes include Henry's second costume. According to the original promo for the video, Henry had his 1st costume when Dorothy had her 3rd. But when The Wiggles head out onto the stage, Dorothy has her 2nd costume on. This is so because they probably didn't intend on putting a live concert clip into their next video and when they decided to, they had to film a prologue.
* Both the 1996 and 2000 VHS releases use the same content, including the 1993 ABC For Kids promo.
* An early offline edit is known to exist without chroma keys, transitions and sound effects

**Goofs**

* Henry's first costume was used on the Australian front cover, but he has his 2nd costume in the video.
* During several songs, you can see studio lights and sides of sets. And at the beginning of Wave to Wags and throughout Goodbye Dance (Instrumental), a camera crew member is seen.
* Special Thanks in the end credits mistakenly labels Clare, Joseph and Dominic Field's last names as Silvestrini, which is actually the family name of their cousins who also participate in Wiggles videos.
* During D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) in the concert clip, in some shots Anthony played the Takamine P3DC instead of the Takamine EF325SRC.