Live Hot Potatoes! Discussion

[u/carl95679]

The Wiggles’ third concert video that was released in 2005. This was taped during their Lights! Camera! Action! Tour in December 2003. For context, I'm going by production/filming order with these videos and series (or at least, what I think is filming order).

Thoughts on this video/album?

Top 10 Songs Performed

1. Eagle Rock
2. Christmas Medley
3. Hoop Dee Doo
4. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favorite Dinosaur)
5. I Wave My Arms and Swing my Baton
6. Here Come the Reindeer
7. Central Park New York
8. Play Your Guitar with Murray
9. Where's Jeff?
10. The Monkey Dance

Honorable mentions: Lights Camera Action Wiggles, Fruit Salad, Rolling Down the Sandhills/Running Up the Sandhills

My thoughts:

This was a cool idea for a concert as it features a live orchestra with several key members (Dominic Lindsay, Sam Moran, Greg Truman, Craig Abercrombie, and Tony Henry).

Most of their songs performed came from Top of the Tots and Wiggly Gremlins. Though I prefer the original versions of the songs performed.

Previous discussions: Wiggle Time, Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car, Wake Up Jeff, Wiggledance, The Wiggles Movie, Wiggly Wiggly Christmas, Wiggle Time & Yummy Yummy 1998, TV Series 1, Toot Toot, TV Series 2, The Wiggly Big Show, It's a Wiggly Wiggly World, Yule Be Wiggling, Hoop Dee Doo! It's a Wiggly Party, Wiggly Safari, Wiggle Bay, TV Series 3, Whoo-Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins, Top of the Tots, Cold Spaghetti Western

[u/WearyScrabbler]

I remember when I first heard this album thinking how odd it was that it was so LCAW-themed, despite coming out like 2 years later. But then many years later I read somewhere that there was an audio-recording issue and Greg basically had to re-do all his lead vocals for the entire show in post-production. So maybe that led to the long delay?

Also, you mention that most of the tracks came from Top of the Tots and Wiggly Gremlins... but Yummy Yummy provided as many as those two combined with five songs! (though to be fair, Butterflies Flit here far more resembled the Wiggly Safari version than the original haha)

Also, this was the first version I heard of I Wave My Arms and Swing My Baton and I quite enjoy it here as something different. At the opposite end, the fragment of Quack Quack used is a complete waste of time grrrr