In 1990, while working with the early childhood music department at Macquarie University, Phillip Wilcher met musician and former member of the Australian rock group the Cockroaches, Anthony Field, who was studying child development.

According to Wilcher, Field asked him to join the Wiggles, which would become "Australia's foremost children's entertainment act",[4] and to help them produce the album.

They used Field's nieces and nephews as additional cast, and hired the band's girlfriends to perform in character costumes.

[11] Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) awarded the band members, including Wilcher, with gold and platinum certificates for the album.

[3] According to fellow member, Greg Page, "Archie had considerable input into the arrangement of some songs on that first CD ... he is quite a musical genius ... his creative flair suited those kinds of pieces ...