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 6 July 2019 Waterloo Road Guess what?! This is the original English song on which the french song, Aux Champs-Elysées, was based. So you already know it!
Songs 5 July 2019 We'll Sing In The Sunshine "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" is a 1964 hit song written and recorded by Gale Garnett which reached number two in Canada, and number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending 17 October 1964.
Songs 2 July 2019 Mamma Mia "Mamma Mia" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
Songs 1 August 2018 My Uncle A cute children's camp song, sung to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean".
Songs 21 June 2018 Escape (The Piña Colada Song) "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" is a song written and recorded by British-born American singer Rupert Holmes for his 1979 album Partners in Crime.
Songs 21 June 2018 In The Summertime "In the Summertime" is the debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry. Written and composed by its lead singer, Ray Dorset, it celebrates the carefree days of summer.
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 1 November 2016 He Played His Ukulele As The Ship Went Down "He Played His Ukulele As The Ship Went Down" also known as "The Wreck of the Nancy Lee" - words and music by Arthur Le Clerq (circa 1932). Billed as a comedy fox trot.
Songs 9 July 2016 Centerfield "Centerfield" is the title track from John Fogerty's album Centerfield, Fogerty's first solo album after a nine-year hiatus.
Songs 3 May 2016 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", also known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It was originally recorded in 1960 by The Shirelles, who took their single to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Songs 6 January 2016 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was written by Robert Hazard, who only recorded a demo of it in 1979. Robert Hazard wrote this song from a male point of view. Cyndi Lauper changed the lyrics with Hazard's approval.
Songs 30 June 2015 I Got You Babe "I Got You Babe" is a song written by Sonny Bono. Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the lyrics to and composed the music of the song for himself and his then-wife, Cher, late at night in their basement.
Songs 8 April 2013 Sunshine Superman "Sunshine Superman" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan in 1965.
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 19 January 2013 Moonlight Swim Words by Sylvia Dee, music by Ben Weisman and first recorded by Nick Noble in 1957 and released on Mercury Records. Re-recorded by Elvis Presley for the soundtrack album from Blue Hawaii.
Songs 3 June 2012 Angel of the Morning Written and composed by New York City-born songwriter Chip Taylor, "Angel of the Morning" was originally offered to Connie Francis to sing, but she turned it down because she thought that it was too risqué for her career.
Songs 30 January 2012 Come A Little Bit Closer "Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s rock and roll band Jay and the Americans.
Songs 17 January 2012 Where Everybody Knows Your Name "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" is the theme song from the 1980s television sitcom Cheers. The song was written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo and performed by Gary Portnoy.
Songs 11 November 2011 They're Red Hot "They're Red Hot" is a song originally performed and written by blues musician Robert Johnson and released in July 1937.
