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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 12 March 2020 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is a blues standard written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. First popularized by Bessie Smith, the preeminent female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, it was also a big hit for Eric Clapton in 1970, and again in 1992.
Songs 30 October 2019 Walk Right In "Walk Right In" is the title of a country blues song written by musician Gus Cannon and originally recorded by Cannon's Jug Stompers in 1929. It was reissued on album in 1959 as a track on The Country Blues.
Songs 29 October 2018 Sweet Georgia Brown "Sweet Georgia Brown" was composed in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey.
Songs 4 March 2018 When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" has been re-scored as "When You and I Were Young, Maggie Blues", by Jack Frost and Jimmy McHugh.
Songs 24 February 2018 When You and I Were Young, Maggie "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. In 2005, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Songs 4 November 2017 Tin Pan Alley Medley Tin Pan Alley was the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters, in a specific area of Manhattan, who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Songs 5 November 2016 Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?) "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)" is a novelty song by Lonnie Donegan.
Songs 30 August 2016 This Train Is Bound For Glory "This Train", also known as "This Train Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922.
Songs 3 July 2015 When The Saints Go Marching In The origins of this song are unclear. It apparently evolved in the early 1900s from a number of similarly titled gospel songs, including "When the Saints Are Marching In" (1896) and "When the Saints March In for Crowning" (1908).
Songs 14 February 2014 Button Up Your Overcoat "Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular song. The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown.
Songs 3 June 2013 Singin' In The Rain "Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929.
Songs 16 March 2013 Lukey's Boat "Lukey's Boat" is a comical song widely sung on the east coast of Newfoundland and collected by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld.
Songs 16 March 2013 Squid-Jiggin’ Ground, The "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" became Newfoundland's first local hit record when it sold 15,000 copies in 1943.
Songs 6 April 2012 In The Jailhouse Now "In the Jailhouse Now" is an American novelty blues song originally found in vaudeville performances from the early 20th century, usually credited to Jimmie Rodgers.
Songs 25 January 2012 Side By Side "Side by Side" is a popular song with lyrics by Gus Kahn and music by Harry M. Woods written in 1927, now considered a standard. It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by Kay Starr. (Wikipedia)
Songs 14 January 2012 Tiptoe Through The Tulips "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" is a popular song originally published in 1929. The song was written by Al Dubin (lyrics) and Joe Burke (music).
Songs 14 January 2012 April Showers "April Showers" is a popular song with music written by Louis Silvers and lyrics by B. G. De Sylva. First published in 1921, it is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "Bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer. ("So keep on looking for a bluebird, and waiting for his song.")
Songs 3 November 2011 Big Rock Candy Mountains, The "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk music song about a hobo's idea of paradise.
Songs 16 October 2011 Those Were The Days "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky.
Songs 22 August 2011 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel.
Songs 22 August 2011 I'll Fly Away "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced in part by an older secular ballad.
Songs 6 June 2011 Tonight You Belong To Me "Tonight You Belong to Me" is a popular American song, written in 1926 by lyricist Billy Rose and composer Lee David.
Songs 4 June 2011 This Little Light "This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel song with lyrics by Avis Burgeson Christiansen and a tune written by composer and teacher Harry Dixon Loes (1895–1965) c. 1920. The song has since entered the folk tradition, first being collected by John Lomax in 1939.
