If it was all up to Anthony Field, who wears the blue shirt, The Wiggles' Hottest 100 winning cover of Tame Impala's Elephant might never have happened.
The band's triple j Like a Version cover could have been a classic Australian hit from the 1960s.
"As an older guy, I would have said, you know, 'Let's do Easy Beats' Friday on My Mind'," Field said, following the bands' historic win.
"I'm stuck in the past," Field said.
Instead, the group were steered towards covering newer artists and eventually settled on Tame Impala's stomping 2012 release, Elephant.
Field praised the "incredible" song, but it wasn't until his daughters heard the cover that he had an inkling the band were on to a winner.
"My daughters were school age and they said it was really cool," Field told ABC News Breakfast.
But their work wasn't done, Field said, because the band realised they couldn't do a straight cover of the song.
"You know what, when we were practising for the Like a Version, we did a very faithful version of the song," he said.
"Nick Webb and Natalie Waller from ABC Music were kind of advising [us] because this is all a new area to me. Contemporary music. And they said, 'It sounds like a cover band'."
He said it was suggested that the band include their own twist on the cover.
"I thought, 'OK let's throw Fruit Salad in. It has a great riff' and we swung it," he said.
"It's such a good song and then people grew up with Fruit Salad and putting them together is a lot of fun."
Despite the band's musical prowess, they said the song, written by Kevin Parker, is deceptively complex to perform.
"When you first hear it, you think it is straightforward. It's not a straightforward song," he said.
"There is all these different time changes and we really had to get our chops working for this and Emma on the drums, wow, because it is quite an incredibly complex track."
With the help of an elephant mask, he said, the band was able to pull it all together.
"And Lachie's singing was beautiful … Jeff came in with the keyboards. Murray did the guitar solo and the elephant on the bass … just unstoppable."
It all combined to see The Wiggles become the first band to debut in the countdown with a number one song in 28 years.
It's not a bad effort, considering Field said he first listened to the triple j Hottest 100 last year.
"Even when it started, I wasn't listening. It is the last year [that I first listened], which was quite incredible," he said.
"My daughter was having a party for one, because it was lockdown, and then that was the first time I heard about it, and I said, 'Next year I will party with you with this thing'.
"I realised how much it means to people. It just felt great."
