Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 December 2024 2024 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on December 18, 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 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 11 July 2012 Honolulu Rock-a Roll-a Moon Mullican once stated, "We gotta play music that'll make them goddamn beer bottles bounce on the table".
Songs 29 April 2012 Folsom Prison Blues "Folsom Prison Blues" is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career.
Songs 3 April 2012 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" is a song written by Jack Clement and recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1958 album Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous. The song hit number one on the US Country charts and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 5 March 2012 Forty Shades Of Green "Forty Shades of Green" is a song about Ireland, written and first performed by American country singer Johnny Cash. Cash wrote the song in 1959 while on a trip to Ireland; it was first released as a B-side of the song "The Rebel–Johnny Yuma" in 1961.
Songs 23 February 2012 Whiskey In The Jar "Whiskey in the Jar" is a well-known Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry, as well as Fenit, a village in County Kerry.
Songs 9 February 2012 Iko Iko “Iko! Iko! Jock-a-mo Fee No Nay” is a phrase that will, for many, instantly bring to mind the iconic 1965 number by The Dixie Cups.
Songs 5 February 2012 Everyday "Everyday" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957, and released on September 20, 1957, as the B-side of "Peggy Sue".
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 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 14 January 2012 Unchained Melody "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret.
Songs 14 January 2012 Sway "Sway" is the English version of "Quién será", a 1953 Cumbia instrumental song by Mexican composers Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltrán Ruiz.
1950's 15 November 2011 Home for the Holidays "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" is a popular song published in 1954, commonly associated with the Christmas and holiday season.
Songs 15 November 2011 Silver Bells "Silver Bells" is a popular Christmas song, composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans."Silver Bells" was first performed by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid, filmed in July–August 1950 and released in March 1951.
Songs 15 November 2011 I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is a Christmas novelty song written by John Rox and performed by Gayla Peevey (10 years old at the time) in 1953.
Songs 15 November 2011 Santa Baby "Santa Baby" is a song performed by American singer Eartha Kitt with Henri René and His Orchestra and originally released in 1953. The song was written by Joan Javits and Philip Springer, who also used the pseudonym Tony Springer in an attempt to speed up the song's publishing process.
Songs 15 November 2011 Jingle Bell Rock "Jingle Bell Rock" is an American popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal (1900–1967) and James Ross Boothe (1917–1976).
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 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 25 million copies with the 4th most digital downloads sold of any Christmas single.
Songs 15 November 2011 Frosty The Snowman "Frosty the Snowman" (or "Frosty the Snow Man") is a popular Christmas song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 and later recorded by Jimmy Durante, releasing it as a single.
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 9 November 2011 Smile "Smile" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times.
Songs 31 October 2011 Gypsy Rover, The The Whistling Gypsy, sometimes known simply as The Gypsy Rover, is a well-known ballad composed and copyrighted by Dublin songwriter Leo Maguire in the 1950s.
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 1 October 2011 Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
