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 13 October 2012 Swimming Song, The After the success of Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk," Columbia Records was eager for another "silly animal song" to appeal to the public.
Songs 13 October 2012 Autumn's Here "Autumn's Here" is a song by Hawksley Workman and appears on the album Lover/Fighter (2003).
Songs 13 October 2012 With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" is a darkly humorous song, written in 1934 by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee, originally performed by Stanley Holloway.
Songs 13 October 2012 Zombie Jamboree "Jumbie Jamberee" is a calypso song credited to Conrad Eugene Mauge, Jr. In 1953 Lord Intruder released the song as the B-side to "Disaster With Police". The song is also known as "Zombie Jamboree" and "Back to Back".
Songs 11 October 2012 Bringing Mary Home The song Bringing Mary Home was written by John Duffey, Joe Kingston, Chaw Mank and was first recorded and released by The Country Gentlemen in 1965. It's a bluegrass classic!
Songs 10 October 2012 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" is a popular love song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1950, who released the song as a Decca single in 1951 with their group, The Weavers.
Songs 11 July 2012 A Summer Song "A Summer Song" is a 1964 song by the English pop music duo Chad & Jeremy. The song was written by duo partner Chad Stuart with Clive Metcalfe and Keith Noble.
Songs 16 October 2011 Those Were The Days "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky.
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 30 September 2011 Witch Doctor "Witch Doctor" is a song performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr., and released in 1958 by Liberty Records under the stage name David Seville. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 5 September 2011 Zamboni Machine "Zamboni Machine" was written by Martin Zellar in 1990 and recorded by his band, Gear Daddies, a Minnesota-based country-rock band.
Songs 5 September 2011 California Dreamin’ "California Dreamin'" is a song written by John and Michelle Phillips in 1963 and first recorded by Barry McGuire.
Songs 5 September 2011 Science Fiction/Double Feature "The Rocky Horror Show" is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.