Looks like our favorite brightly-colored skivvied friends will be making an appearence tomorrow morning on Good Morning America. For many of us, I’m guessing that this will be our first opportunity to see Sam Moran included in a performance as the official bearer of the yellow skivvie, though we know he has been performing in Greg Page’s stead (and doing a wonderful job!) on and off for a while now.
Looks like I may have to set my alarm a bit early for The Wiggles‘ performance! Hmm…or that’s what the VCR is for.
ht: Bald Man

You may not have known that Greg Page of The Wiggles also had a solo music career. Brettyfan of YouTube has compiled a mix of his solo songs. You can listen here. My four-year-old seemed to like these songs quite a lot as well. Must be the familiar, melodious voice.

Here are more reactions to Greg Page Wiggle’s departure from The Wiggles.
From Right Pundits:
The Wiggles are on the television every morning at Ranch McCain, but I cringe every morning just the same. They are not exactly my vision of the Ideal Man. And when they aren’t on the telly, they are on the CD player, creating a wild Wiggles dance fest in the living room when I want to watch football. That is, unless we are driving in which case they are blasting in the car when I’d rather hear Steppenwolf. However, at a time like this, one shouldn’t …read more

The Wiggles are great guys. Look at their big smiles on what is probably a very sad day in their lives.
Anthony Field Wiggle, the blue wiggle:
It’s very surreal that Greg’s not going to be with us, very sad.
Myself, Murray and Jeff. We actually said to each other, ‘do you want to keep going?’ and we said ‘yes, we’d love to keep going’.
Here’s to another 15 years of The Wiggles!
The Courier-Mail, November 30, 2006

Many are writing about Greg Page’s departure from The Wiggles in honor of Greg Page Wiggle Tribute Day. Are you? Leave a comment or email me.
From A Second Hand Conjecture:
My oldest son dressed as Greg Wiggle this year for Halloween, complete with yellow shirt, magic hat, rabbit and wand (Greg is the Wiggle who wants to be a magician). Luckily, my son is only three, and with subtle prodding from Mommy and Daddy will only “remember” either a three-man group or the equivalent of Darrin being replaced on Bewitched.
From Paula Mooney (who has a great shot of The Wiggles …read more

If we could, we would hand this trophy to Greg Page.
Greg Page, Wiggle Forever, Nov 30, 2006
From RedKid.net via Leora

news.com.au has more video clips of Greg Page and The Wiggles:

Yellow Wiggle Steps Down – Personal message from Greg where he hands over his yellow shirt to Sam Moran
Emotional Time For Wiggles – You can see Sam Moran speak.

Lest Sam Moran thinks we aren’t welcoming him into The Wiggles family, here’s a bit more about him from The Australian.
“It’s always been a little daunting obviously filling in for him, but it’s just a great new challenge for me and I’m just looking forward to that,” Moran said today.
Moran, born in Wagga Wagga and educated at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, joined The Wiggles team in 1998 as host of the Dorothy the Dinosaur Show.
Since then, he has also spent time as a “Wiggly dancer, and a Wiggly band member”, and is married to former Dorothy the Dinosaur …read more

The rumors were true. Greg Page, the yellow Wiggle, is leaving The Wiggles. Long time understudy, Sam Moran, will be taking his place. He has already performed 150 shows in Greg’s absence.
Greg suffers from orthostatic intolerance, which makes it virtually impossible for him to conduct a normal, active life. What a sad, sad day.
Here’s a video of Greg’s farewell message. I admit to having watched it with a few tears in my eyes.
From the press release:
Greg has been suffering symptoms for many months, affecting his ability to perform. The condition is related to blood pressure and …read more

Baldman, the oldest 2 kids and I all got to go see The Wiggles LIVE show last night. Way fun! They performed all of our favorite Wiggles songs, and kept the kids entertained for almost an hour and a half. It was fun to hear The Wiggles refer to our local history and one of our historic neighborhoods. Turns out they were only about 5 minutes from my house at some point in the day! (Yeah, I tend to get a bit starstruck.)
I love the venue where we saw them. It’s not …read more