The Wiggles

The Wiggles are an Australian band who specialise in creating and performing music for preschool children.

Wiggles songs are often about simple topics that children can relate to: sleeping ("Rock A Bye Bear", &

The Wiggles are an Australian band who specialise in creating and performing music for preschool children.

Wiggles songs are often about simple topics that children can relate to: sleeping ("Rock A Bye Bear", "Wake Up Jeff"), eating ("Fruit Salad"), animals ("Do the Monkey", "Rockabye Your Bear", "Ponies") or the cast of characters created for their home videos and TV shows. These costumed characters include Dorothy the Dinosaur (a horticulturalist dinosaur who eats only roses), Captain Feathersword (a harmless pirate), Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus, and Officer Beaples (a female police officer who communicates through mime). Another distinctive feature of the group's songs is easy-to-repeat gestures, such as the "romp bomp a chomp" hand motions in the song "Dorothy the Dinosaur". Much of the Wiggles' music was written by John Field, the brother of the blue wiggle - Anthony. The Wiggles also adapted the Bob Wills tune "Silver Bells That Ring In The Night" with a duck-like "quack quack-quack" in the refrain.