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In 1991, while still a student, Field became motivated to use concepts in the field of early childhood education to record an album of music for children.[4][9] The album was dedicated to Field's niece.[3] A song he wrote for the Cockroaches, "Get Ready to Wiggle", inspired the band's name because they thought that wiggling described the way children dance.[4][7] Like a university assignment, they produced a folder of essays that explained the educational value of each song on the album.[9] They needed a keyboardist "to bolster the rock'n'roll feel of the project",[5] so Field asked his old bandmate Fatt for his assistance in what they thought would be a temporary project.[10][note 2] The group received songwriting help from John Field, Anthony's brother and former bandmate, and from Phillip Wilcher, who was working with the early childhood music program at Macquarie.[12][note 3] After contributing to their first album, hosting the group's first recording sessions in his Sydney home, and appearing in a couple of the group's first videos, Wilcher left the group and went into classical music.[12][13][note 4] The group reworked a few Cockroaches tunes to better fit the genre of children's music; for example, the Cockroaches song "Hot Tamale", written by John Field, was changed to "Hot Potato".[14] Anthony Field gave copies of their album to his young students to test out the effect of the group's music on children; one mother returned it the next day because her child would not stop listening to it.[15]To promote their first album, the Wiggles filmed two music videos with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and created a self-produced, forty-minute-long video version. Finances were limited, so there was no post-production editing of the video project. They used Field's nieces and nephews as additional cast, and hired the band's girlfriends to perform in character costumes. Cook's wife made their first costumes.[7] They used according to Wikipedia
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