Featured BUG Jam 01/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! January 14, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2026 BUG Orchestra Fun with Mark & Sue! January 24, 2026 Have you always wanted to be part of a ukulele orchestra?
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2026 BUG Really Small, REALLY SLOW Jam with Sue & Mark! January 24, 2026 Beginners! Mark and I are holding a ukulele slow jam in our home. Come join us!
Featured BUG Jam 02/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! February 11, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 07/03/26 1 January 2026 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 7, 2026! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011!
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! Photos - December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
Featured BUG Jam Videos 10 December 2025 2025 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam recorded on December 10, 2025, with a full house of festive ukers despite our first major snowstorm of the year! We're in Ottawa Ontario Canada - join us to strum, sing, and be merry! It's FUN! And you don't need to be any good.
Songs 3 July 2014 Lili Marlene "Lilli Marlene" was a poem written in 1915 by Hans Leip and set to music in 1938 by Norbert Schultze. Marlene Dietrich's 1944 recording became a massive success.
Songs 2 June 2014 Blackfly Song, The "The Black Fly Song" is a song written in 1949 by Canadian singer-songwriter, Wade Hemsworth, about working in the wilds of Northern Ontario. It is an enduring classic of Canadian folk music, covered by a variety of other artists.
Songs 9 February 2014 La Vie En Rose "La Vie en rose" (French for "Life in pink") is the signature song of popular French singer Édith Piaf, written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947.
Songs 25 October 2013 Alone And Forsaken Hank Williams' recording of "Alone And Forsaken" was taken from one of his performances on the Shreveport radio station KWKH between August 1948 and May 1949.
Songs 21 October 2013 Hard Travellin' DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETHard Travellin' (WORD) Hard Travellin' (PDF) Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and one of the
Songs 23 March 2013 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps Desi Arnaz (1948), Bing Crosby (1951), Doris Day (1964), Cake (1996), The Pussycat Dolls (2008), and many others, have all given this song a go! Why not us?
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 23 February 2013 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949.
Songs 22 December 2012 Dirty Old Town "Dirty Old Town" is an English song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners and has been recorded by many others.
Songs 16 December 2012 White Christmas "White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
Songs 13 October 2012 Ghost Riders In The Sky "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. More than 50 performers have recorded versions of the song.
Songs 6 May 2012 Sentimental Journey "Sentimental Journey" is a popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by Bud Green.
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 2 February 2012 On A Slow Boat To China "On A Slow Boat to China", sometimes called "(I'd Like To Get You On A (Slow Boat To China)" is a popular song by Frank Loesser, published in 1948.
Christmas 15 November 2011 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, was introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
Songs 15 November 2011 Baby It's Cold Outside "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a song written by Frank Loesser in 1944.
Songs 15 November 2011 Mele Kalikimaka "Mele Kalikimaka" is a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase Mele Kalikimaka, meaning "Merry Christmas".
Songs 15 November 2011 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a song written by Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Gene Autry's recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949.
Songs 15 November 2011 Christmas Song, The (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) "The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé.
Songs 14 November 2011 Sixteen Tons "Sixteen Tons" is a song about a coal miner, based on life in coal mines in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The song is usually attributed to Merle Travis, who is credited on his 1946 recording.
Songs 5 September 2011 Autumn Leaves "Autumn Leaves" is a popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song, "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves"), with music by Hungarian-French composer Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert.
Songs 4 June 2011 Swinging On A Star "Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was sung by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
Songs 2 May 2011 Shaving Cream In 1946, Benny Bell released his three highest-selling songs: "Take a Ship for Yourself," "Pincus the Peddler" and the notorious "Shaving Cream".
Songs 12 April 2011 I'm Looking Over A Four-leaf Clover "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" is a song from 1927, written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods.
