Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 2024 IMPORTANT NEWS! You will now always have a seat at BUG! How? Beginning with our jam on March 20, 2024, all folks must have a ticket to be admitted to our BUG Jams at Red Bird. Please share this news with anyone you know who comes to BUG!
Featured BUG Jam 01/25 23 December 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 19, 2025 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 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.
Songs 19 October 2018 Killing Me Softly With His Song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
Songs 19 October 2018 A World Of Our Own "A World of Our Own" is a 1965 single written by Tom Springfield and was an international hit for the Seekers.
Songs 28 July 2018 Roll Over Beethoven "Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 hit single written by Chuck Berry, originally released on Chess Records. The lyrics of the song mention rock and roll and the desire for rhythm and blues to replace classical music.
Songs 3 July 2018 Summer Nights "Summer Nights" is a popular song from the musical Grease. Written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey in 1978, its best-known version was recorded by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John for the big-screen adaptation of the musical, and released as a single that same year.
Songs 22 June 2018 Ugly Bug Ball, The The Ugly Bug Ball" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers in 1963 and sung by Burl Ives as Osh Popham in the movie Summer Magic.
Songs 22 June 2018 Rum and Coca-Cola "Rum and Coca-Cola" is a popular calypso song composed by Lionel Belasco with lyrics by Lord Invader.
Songs 10 April 2018 Green, Green Grass Of Home "Green, Green Grass of Home" was written by Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965.
Songs 7 April 2018 Splish Splash "Splish Splash" is a 1958 song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin. It was written with DJ Murray the K (Murray Kaufman), who bet that Darin could not write a song that began with the words, "Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath", as suggested by Murray's mother, Jean Kaufman.
Songs 1 April 2018 When You Wore A Tulip Music by Percy Wenrich, Lyrics by Jack Mahoney. Publication date: 1914
Songs 26 February 2018 There Is A Tavern In The Town "There Is a Tavern in the Town" is a traditional folk song first appearing in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill's Student Songs. The song was the college anthem of Trinity University College.
Songs 4 November 2017 Calendar Girl "Calendar Girl" is a song by Neil Sedaka. The music was composed by Sedaka and the lyrics by Howard Greenfield. Recorded in 1960 and released in 1961, it was a Top-5 hit single for Sedaka, peaking at #4 on the US charts and #1 on the Canadian and Japanese charts.
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 19 October 2017 Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", first published in 1956, is a popular song written by the songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
Songs 19 October 2017 I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" is a 1965 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label.
Songs 3 September 2017 One Tin Soldier "One Tin Soldier" was written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. Canadian pop group The Original Caste recorded the song in 1969.
Songs 29 April 2017 You're No Good "You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr., first performed by Dee Dee Warwick for Jubilee Records in 1963 with production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
Songs 28 April 2017 Delta Dawn "Delta Dawn" is a song written by former child rockabilly star Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey. The first recording of "Delta Dawn" was made by Harvey for his eponymous album released in November 1971.
Songs 22 April 2017 You Belong To Me "You Belong to Me" is a romantic pop music ballad from the 1950s.The first 1952 recording of the song was by Joni James. A cover version by Jo Stafford became the most popular version.
Songs 3 April 2017 Up On The Roof "Up on the Roof" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded in 1962 by The Drifters: released late that year, the disc became a major hit in early 1963, reaching number 5 on the U.S. pop singles chart and number 4 on the U.S. R&B singles chart.
Songs 2 April 2017 I Count The Tears When Ben E. King became the Drifters' lead singer in 1958 – the entire group had been replaced by their manager – he took over from the wildly successful Clyde McPhatter.
Songs 1 April 2017 Good Luck Charm "Good Luck Charm" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company, that reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the week ending April 21, 1962.
Songs 1 April 2017 All Shook Up "All Shook Up" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley, published by Elvis Presley Music, and composed by Otis Blackwell.
