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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 November 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 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 7 October 2015 Don't Go Into That Barn This Tom Waits 2004 song seems to have been based on the 2003 NY Times account of a slave jail in Northern KY, just upriver from Cincinnati.
Songs 18 May 2013 Breakfast In Hell "Breakfast In Hell" was written by Slaid Cleaves and released in 2000 on his album "Broke Down".
Songs 10 November 2012 Mr. Spaceman "Mr. Spaceman" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds and was the third track on their 1966 album, Fifth Dimension. It was released as the third single from the album in September 1966, reaching number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, but failing to chart in the United Kingdom.
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 20 April 2012 Evil Ways "Evil Ways" is a song made famous by the band Santana from their 1969 album, Santana. It was written by Clarence "Sonny" Henry and originally recorded by jazz percussionist Willie Bobo on his 1967 album, Bobo Motion.
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 Science Fiction/Double Feature "The Rocky Horror Show" is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.
Songs 5 September 2011 Autumn Leaves "Autumn Leaves" is a popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song, "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves"), with music by Hungarian-French composer Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert.
Songs 22 August 2011 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel.
Songs 2 May 2011 Vive la compagnie (Vive l’amour) "Vive La Compagnie" has many variations from around the world. Scouts adopted it as one of their tunes under "Vive l'Amour".
Songs 2 May 2011 Oh My Darlin', Clementine "Oh My Darling, Clementine" is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884), although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford.
Songs 29 April 2011 Waltzing Matilda "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".
