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The Wiggles are 30 years old and boy, do I feel old. The veteran children’s group from Down Under have released a collection of 40 of their songs, dubbed We’re All Fruit Salad! If you don’t find yourself singing along within the first couple of tracks, you’re full of apples and bananas.
There are musical acts on my bucket list who I still have not seen in person. But I can brag that I’ve seen the Wiggles — who traveled to America from Australia — four different times with three children (my two sons and one of their cousins). The first time that the Wiggles danced down the aisle at Westbury Music Fair (or whatever they call it now), my son Matt studied them like the Zapruder film (google it). There they were, in the flesh (except for Dorothy and Wags, who were in the cloth).
Matt watched the Wiggles 2.0, consisting of Anthony with three new members — Emmy, Lachy, and Simon. But the OGs (original guys) — Jeff, Murray, and Greg — still make appearances from time to time. In fact, the only former Wiggle who remains persona non grata is Sam Moran, dubbed “the salaried Wiggle” ostracized from Wiggle Nation in 2011 in a nasty split after he requested full membership and was replaced…
