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Featured BUG Jam 01/25 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 9 February 2012 Bread and Butter "Bread and Butter" is a 1964 song by The Newbeats. Written by Larry Parks and Jay Turnbow, "Bread and Butter" was the group's first and most popular hit. (Wikipedia)
Songs 5 February 2012 Worried Man Blues "Worried Man Blues" is a folk song in the roots music repertoire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 4753.
Songs 30 January 2012 Come A Little Bit Closer "Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s rock and roll band Jay and the Americans.
Songs 19 January 2012 Sloop John B "Sloop John B" is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription by Richard Le Gallienne, titled "The John B. Sails" was published in 1916, and a version was included in Carl Sandburg's folk song book, The American Songbag, in 1927.
Songs 27 November 2011 Chanukah, Oh Chanukah "Chanukah, Oh Chanukah" is an English version of the traditional Yiddish song Oy Chanukah (Yiddish: חנוכּה אױ חנוכּה Khanike Oy Khanike).
Songs 3 November 2011 Wild Rover, The "The Wild Rover" is the most widely performed Irish song, although its exact origins are unknown.
Songs 14 October 2011 Purple People Eater, The "The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached no. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14.
Songs 14 October 2011 Werewolves of London "Werewolves of London" is a rock song composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and performed by Zevon.
Songs 7 October 2011 Rain "Rain" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was first released in May 1966 as the B-side of their "Paperback Writer" single. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the album Revolver although neither appears on that album.
Songs 22 September 2011 Lion Sleeps Tonight, The "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", is a song written and recorded originally by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube".
Songs 5 September 2011 Zamboni Machine "Zamboni Machine" was written by Martin Zellar in 1990 and recorded by his band, Gear Daddies, a Minnesota-based country-rock band.
Songs 22 August 2011 Another Saturday Night "Another Saturday Night" is the title of a 1963 hit single by Sam Cooke from the album Ain't That Good News. It reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and was number one on the R&B chart for a single week.
Songs 22 August 2011 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1967 in Woodstock, New York, during the self-imposed exile from public appearances that followed his July 29, 1966 motorcycle accident.
Songs 22 August 2011 Ring Of Fire "Ring of Fire", or "The Ring of Fire", is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash. The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash.
Songs 7 August 2011 Down On The Corner "Down on the Corner" is a song by the American band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It appeared on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys (1969).
Songs 7 August 2011 Johnny B. Goode "Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock-and-roll song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences, peaking at number 2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and number 8 on its Hot 100 chart.
Songs 3 August 2011 Blowin' in the Wind "Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963.
Songs 4 June 2011 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a song by folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel, appearing on their 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
Songs 2 May 2011 English Sparrow (I Wish I Was A Little Bar Of Soap) A favourite song we always sang around our campfires!
Songs 2 May 2011 Oh My Darlin', Clementine "Oh My Darling, Clementine" is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884), although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford.
Songs 12 April 2011 Wild Mountain Thyme This is another of those songs which many people believe to be a traditional Scottish song, but like so many songs popularised during the 1960’s folk boom, is actually quite modern, having been copyrighted in 1957!
