Featured BUG Jam Videos 21 November 2024 2024 - November BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on November 20, 2024, at Red Bird Live - a full house of enthusiastic ukers! 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.
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Featured BUG Jam 12/24 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 18, 2024 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.
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 FREE and you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 18 March 2017 Mr. Sandman "Mr. Sandman" (sometimes rendered as "Mister Sandman") is a popular song written by Pat Ballard which was published in 1954 and first recorded in May of that year by Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra and later that same year by The Chordettes.
Songs 18 March 2017 Sea Cruise "Sea Cruise" is a song written and sung by Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns.
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 4 November 2016 All I Have To Do Is Dream "All I Have to Do Is Dream" is a popular song made famous by the Everly Brothers, written by Boudleaux Bryant of the husband and wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and published in 1958.
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 2016 Ain't That A Shame "Ain't That A Shame" is a heartache song about a breakup that was the other partner's fault. Fats Domino wrote it with Dave Bartholomew, who worked on most of Domino's hits.
Songs 23 June 2016 Don't Be Cruel "Don't Be Cruel" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956.
Songs 26 March 2016 Rock Around The Clock "Rock Around the Clock" is written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954. It was a number one single on both the US and UK charts.
Songs 26 March 2016 My Ding-A-Ling "My Ding-a-Ling" is the title of a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. "My Ding-a-Ling" was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952 for King Records. When Bartholomew moved to Imperial Records, he re-recorded the song under the new title, "Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling".
Songs 20 March 2016 Doggie In The Window, The "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song published as having been written by Bob Merrill in 1952 and very loosely based on the folk tune, Carnival of Venice.
Songs 20 March 2016 San Francisco Bay Blues "San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller.
Songs 23 December 2015 Frosty The Snowman, Tequila! This was presented by The Cachero Family at our Holly Jolly BUG Jam in December 2015. You can play along with their video using the (C) songsheet, although I've slightly altered the intro.
Songs 20 December 2015 Nuttin' For Christmas "Nuttin’ for Christmas" (also known as "Nothing for Christmas") is a novelty Christmas song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett.
Songs 9 December 2015 Cool Yule "Cool Yule" is a 1953 Christmas song written by Steve Allen and introduced by Louis Armstrong.
Songs 6 November 2015 Silver Threads And Golden Needles "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", a song written by Jack Rhodes and Dick Reynolds, was first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956. The original lyrics, as performed by Jackson, contain a verse not usually included in later versions, which also often differed in other minor details.
Songs 30 October 2015 Walkin' After Midnight "Walkin' After Midnight" is a song written by Alan Block and Donn Hecht and recorded by American country music artist Patsy Cline.
Songs 25 October 2015 Rawhide "Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine.
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 29 June 2015 Peggy Sue "Peggy Sue" is a rock and roll song written by J. Allison - N. Petty recorded and released as a single by Holly in early July of 1957.
Songs 29 March 2015 At The Hop "At the Hop" is a rock and roll/doo-wop song written by Artie Singer, John Medora, and David White in 1957, when Danny & the Juniors were still called The Juvenairs.
Songs 29 March 2015 Blue Suede Shoes "Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock-and-roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955.
Songs 26 March 2015 Sea Of Love "Sea of Love" is a song written by Philip Baptiste (better known as Phil Phillips) and George Khoury and record by Phillips in 1959.
Songs 10 January 2015 Hound Dog "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
