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"Hits And Rarities" (known on digital platforms as "Hit Songs and Rarities") is a Wiggles compilation released on October 19th, 2012. It includes songs from the past 21 years and including some that are considerably rare, as well as two The Wiggles Radio Show episodes.

It was released in North America almost 6 years later on August 31st, 2018, the same year as the release of The Wiggles Reunion Show.

Length: 69:14

Song List

Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (Live) - 1:18
Fruit Salad - 2:28
Hot Potato - 1:20
Five Little Joeys - 1:47
Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car - 2:23
Dr Knickerbocker (Live) - 2:19
Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) - 1:36
Je'Suis Dorothy the Dinosaur (French Version) - 1:21
Monkey Man (featuring Kylie Minogue) - 2:34
Taba Naba (featuring Christine Anu) - 1:54
Quack Quack - 1:56
I'm a Cow (Jeff's Only Solo Song) - 0:32
The Monkey Dance - 1:43
Advance Australia Fair (Australia's National Anthem, Wiggly Version!) - 1:23
Romp Bomp A Stomp - 1:26
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - 2:16
Shaky Shaky - 1:25
Walk On The Wild Side (Wiggly Version) - 1:45
Follow The Leader - 2:12
The Crocodile Hunter (featuring Steve Irwin) - 1:33
Lechoo Yeladim - 1:34
Move Your Arms Like Henry (Spanish Version) - 1:51
Getting Strong! (Greg Page Version) - 1:20
I Climb Ten Stairs (Mandarin Version) - 1:11
Wake Up Jeff! - 1:24
Captain Feathersword (He Loves to Dance) (Anthony Field As Captain Version) - 3:33
The Shimmie Shake! (Live) - 2:44
Wags The Dog, He Likes To Tango - 1:05
The Wiggles Radio Show Episode – Hip Hop Henry - 9:33
The Wiggles Radio Show Episode – The Comedy Show - 10:03

iTunes LP Bonus features

The iTunes LP version of this album also includes a menu screen where you can choose each song, view a biography of The Wiggles, a gallery of posters, as well as watch the following bonus video clips:

Captain Feathersword (From Wiggle Time! 1993)
Wake up, Danny (Taiwanese version of Wake Up Jeff!)
Henry the Octopus (From Wiggle Time! 1993)
Big Red Car (From Big Red Car)
Hot Potato (From Yummy Yummy 1994)
Getting Strong! (Greg's unreleased version)
Smell Your Way Through The Day (Greg's unreleased version)

Personnel

The Wiggles: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Sam Moran, Greg Page
Executive Producers: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field
Music Produced by Anthony Field
Mastered by Don Bartley
Graphic Design: Georgia Kemmis

Trivia

I'm a Cow is credited as "Jeff's only solo song", but he actually had two others, Would You Giggle and Once I Saw A Little Bird.
The only song that had never been on any album before is Greg's new version of Getting Strong!. Additionally, the Spanish version of Move Your Arms Like Henry and the Mandarin version of I Climb Ten Stairs had never been released on an Australian album before, after only in the Americas and Asia respectively.
The video clips of Captain Feathersword, Henry The Octopus, and Hot Potato are said to be from "Deleted videos" instead of Wiggle Time and Yummy Yummy.
Jacques the Shark returns on this album.
The booklet shows photos of The Wiggles over their first 21 years.
The Wiggles' signatures and the text on the front cover and spine are in a shiny silver colour on the Australian/New Zealand version. This is changed to a light green on the North American version. The text is white on the disc art in all versions.
The inside cover is black and white on the Australian release, but presented in full color on the North American release.

Goofs

The song credits list Murray and Jeff's name for Rock-a-Bye Your Bear.
Wigglemix, which appears in The Wiggles Radio Show episode Hip Hop Henry, is not listed in the credits of the album booklet. Instead, Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?) and Fruit Salad are listed separately, with no mention of It's A Pirate Party On The Good Ship Feathersword, of which the piano and guitar are prominently featured in Wigglemix.
Despite being released in 2018, the North American CD retains the previous ABC for Kids logo from the original Australian release. In addition, the defunct wiggletime.com is still mentioned on the back. Not only that, its promoting sentence, "Visit www.wiggletime.com for more Wiggly fun!", has the word "fun!" mistakenly cut off.

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The Wiggles albums

Murray, Jeff, Anthony, Greg and Phillip (1991)

The Wiggles (1991)

Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Greg (1992-2006, 2012)

Here Comes a Song (1992) • The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate (1993) • Yummy Yummy (1994) • Big Red Car (1995) • Wake Up Jeff! (1996) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1996) • The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack (1997) • Toot Toot! (1998) • It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (2000) • Wiggle Time! (2000) • Yule Be Wiggling (2000) • Hoop-Dee-Doo It's a Wiggly Party (2001) • Wiggly Safari (2002) • Wiggle Bay (2002) • Go To Sleep Jeff! (2003) • Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (2003) • Top of the Tots (2003) • Cold Spaghetti Western (2004) • Santa's Rockin'! (2004) • LIVE Hot Potatoes! (2005) • Sailing Around the World (2005) • Here Comes The Big Red Car (2006) • It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (2006) • Racing to the Rainbow (2006) • Surfer Jeff (2012) • Celebration! (2012)

Karaoke Albums	Karaoke Songs 1 (2005) • Karaoke Christmas Songs (2005) • Karaoke Songs 2 (2006) • Karaoke Songs 3 (2006)
US-exclusive	Splish Splash Big Red Boat (2006)
Singles	Eagle Rock! (feat. Ross Wilson) (2003) • Christmas Single (2004) • Beep! Beep! Buckle Up! (2012)

Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Sam (2007-2011)

Getting Strong! Wiggle and Learn (2007) • Pop Go The Wiggles! (2007) • You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (2008) • Sing a Song of Wiggles (2008) • The Wiggles Go Bananas! (2009) • Hot Poppin' Popcorn (2009) • Let's Eat! (2010) • Ukulele Baby! (2011) • The Wiggles' Big Birthday! (2011) • It's Always Christmas With You! (2011)

Anthony, Lachy, Simon and Emma (2013-present)

Taking Off! (2013) • Furry Tales (2013) • Pumpkin Face (2013) • Go Santa Go! (2013) • Apples & Bananas (2014) • Wiggle House (2014) • Rock & Roll Preschool (2015) • The Wiggles Meet the Orchestra! (2015) • Wiggle Town! (2016) • CinderEmma! Fairytale (2016) • Dance Dance! (2016) • Nursery Rhymes (2017) • Duets (2017) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018) • Wiggle Pop! (2018) • The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! (2019) • Party Time! (2019) • Fun and Games (2020) • Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car! (2020) • We're All Fruit Salad (2021)

Spin-off Albums	Emma! (2015) • Carnival of the Animals (2016) • Dial E For Emma! (2016) • Lachy! (2016) • The Emma! & Lachy! Show (2018) • Emma! 2 (2019)
Singles	Power Through the Day (2013) • Rise For Alex (2014) • NSW Blues Song! (2017) • The Toilet Song (2019) • The Alphabet Ballet (2019) • My Ballet Goat (2019) • I Am A Fine Musician (2019) • The Ants Go Marching (2019) • What's the Time, Mr Wolf? (2019)

Dorothy the Dinosaur (2007-2012)

Dorothy the Dinosaur (2007) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book (2008) • Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus (2009) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas (2010) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show! (2011) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Beach Party! (2012)

Compilations

Christmas Classics (2006) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2009) • Hits And Rarities (2012) • Christmas Crackers! (2012) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2013) • Hot Potatoes & Cold Spaghetti! (2015) • The Best of The Wiggles on Vinyl (2016) • The Best of The Wiggles (2016)

Samplers

The Wiggles (1999) • Celebrating The Wiggles' 10th Birthday! (2001) • Compliments of Brach's and The Wiggles (2003) • A Wiggly Music Sampler (2003) • Wiggle Bay (2003) • Toot Toot! 3 Bonus Songs (2004) • Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie: 3 Bonus Songs (2004) • Wake Up Jeff!: 3 Bonus Songs (2004) • Wiggle Into Apple-Healthy Snack Time (2005) • Snack Time is Wiggle Time With Mott's (2006) • 4 Song CD (2006) • Omo Colourlock Limited Edition CD Sampler (2006)

Books w/ CDs

Sing-along CD (2006) • We're All Friends (2007) • Play Piano with... The Wiggles (2007) • A Wiggly Sing-Along Box Set (2012) • Super Singalong Slipcase (2015) • Singalong Slipcase (2018)

Other Compilations featuring The Wiggles
ABC Kids	ABC For Kids: Greatest Hits (1991) • A Menagerie Of Songs All About Animals (1992) • More ABC For Kids Greatest Hits (1992) • Rock 'N' Roll Kids (1992) • ABC For Kids Live (1993) • Lots And Lots Of Great Music For Kids (1994) • ABC For Kids Dance Party (1995) • Hottest Hits (2003) • ABC For Kids Hits (2004) • Best of ABC for Kids (2006) • The Best of ABC for Kids (2013) • ABC for Kids TV Themes (2014) • The Best of ABC for Kids Volume 2 (2014) • ABC For Kids Christmas (2014) • The Best of ABC Kids Volume 3 (2015) • ABC Kids Christmas - Volume 2 (2015) • The Best of ABC Kids Volume 4 (2016) • ABC Kids Christmas Volume 3 (2016) • Sing and Learn (2017) • The Best of ABC Kids Volume 5 (2017) • ABC Kids Christmas Volume 4 (2017) • ABC Kids Let's Play! Holiday Fun with Friends! (2017) • ABC KIDS Listen (2018) • ABC Kids Hits (2018) • Christmas With ABC Kids (2018) • ABC KIDS Favourites (2019)
Playhouse Disney	Playhouse Disney 2 (2003) • Playhouse Disney: Imagine and Learn With Music (2005) • Disney Music Block Party (2008)
Christmas compilations	The Spirit of Christmas 1998 (1998) • The Spirit of Christmas 2003 (2003) • So Fresh: Songs For Christmas 2005 (2005) • The Spirit Of Christmas 06 (2006) • Carols in the Domain: 25th Anniversary (2007) • So Fresh Songs for Christmas 2008 (2008) • My Favourite Christmas Songs (2010) • Greatest Ever! Christmas: The Definitive Collection (2010) • The Spirit of Christmas 2011 (2011) • My Christmas Album (2012) • So Fresh Songs for Christmas 2012 (2012) • Making Spirits Bright Christmas Charity Collection (2013) • The Spirit of Christmas 2014 (2014) • Making Spirits Bright 2014 Christmas Charity Collection (2014) • 101 Christmas Classics (2017)

More from The Wiggles

The Kingdom Of Paramithi (2009) • ReWiggled: A Tribute To The Wiggles (2011) • Och Aye the G'Nu! (2017)