jeff fatt played the original barking voice of the dog in the wiggles.
jeff fatt played the original barking voice of the dog in the wiggles.
who played the original barking voice of the dog in the wiggles?
jeff fatt
in early 1991, anthony field founded the wiggles, a children's music group, with fellow university students murray cook and greg page, phillip wilcher (from macquarie university's music department) and the cockroaches' bandmate, jeff fatt. in july, they issued their debut album, "the wiggles", which was dedicated to paul field's daughter and sold 70,000 copies. the wiggles went on to become "a global powerhouse in children's entertainment". they used former the cockroaches' members for musical and performing support: paul, john, and henry (the wiggles' character henry the octopus was named after him) performed with them on their cds, dvds, and stage shows. john helped them write many of their songs. many early the wiggles' songs were the cockroaches' tunes reworked to fit the genre of children's music. according to anthony, "the wiggles music isn't all that far removed from what we did in the cockroaches, just a different subject matter ... the cockroaches sing about girls and love and stuff like that; the wiggles sing about hot potatoes and cold spaghetti". paul worked for james roland wood, chief judge at common law, for three years after the band stopped regularly performing and during the wiggles' formation, which he said gave anthony time to develop his new band alone, without much input from his brothers. in the mid-1990s, paul became the wiggles' talent manager.
the cockroaches
introduced in 1995, wags is a tall, brown, furry dog with floppy ears and a happy face. he is also captain feathersword's best friend and pet. he "loves to sing and dance and kids bring 'bones' that the wiggly dancers collect from the audience". the last of the four characters to be introduced, wags was originally played by field. fatt provided the original barking noises for wags before paul field, general manager of the wiggles and brother of blue wiggle anthony took over. mic conway of the captain matchbox whoopee band fame, has provided wags's full-spoken dialogue. 









































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the wiggles characters