Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 March 2025 2025 - March BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on March 19, 2025, at Red Bird Live with 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 January 2025 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 04/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! April 16, 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 05/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 21, 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 06/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 18, 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 07/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 16, 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 08/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 20, 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 09/25 1 January 2025 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Featured BUG Jam 10/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! October 15, 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 11/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! November 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 12/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 17, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 29 March 2025 You Don't Own Me "You Don't Own Me" is a pop song written by Philadelphia songwriters John Madara and David White and recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963, when she was 17 years old.
Songs 17 May 2024 A Place In The Sun "A Place in the Sun" is a 1966 soul single written by Ronald Miller and Bryan Wells and recorded by American and Motown musician Stevie Wonder when he was only 16.
Songs 30 April 2024 Dancing In The Street "Dancing in the Street" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, and Ivy Jo Hunter. It first became popular in 1964 when recorded by Martha and the Vandellas whose version reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart.
Songs 21 April 2024 Save The Last Dance For Me "Save the Last Dance for Me" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by American musical group the Drifters with Ben E. King on lead vocals.
Songs 12 January 2023 Rip It Up "Rip It Up" is a rock and roll song written by Robert Blackwell and John Marascalco. In June 1956, Specialty Records released it as a single by Little Richard with "Ready Teddy" as the B-side.
Songs 1 November 2020 Lean On Me "Lean on Me" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bill Withers. It was released in April 1972 as the first single from his second album, Still Bill.
Songs 30 October 2019 Things "Things" is a song which was written and recorded by Bobby Darin in 1962.
Songs 28 March 2019 No Particular Place To Go "No Particular Place to Go" is a song by Chuck Berry, released as a single by Chess Records in May 1964 and released on the album St. Louis to Liverpool in November 1964.
Songs 23 October 2018 Stormy Weather "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler.
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 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 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 6 February 2018 Perfect "Perfect" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from his third studio album released in September 2017. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Sheeran said that he needed to write the best love song of his career with "Perfect".
Songs 31 January 2018 Stay With Me "Stay with Me" is a song by English singer Sam Smith from their debut studio album In the Lonely Hour (2014).
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 20 April 2017 Sunny "Sunny" is a song written by Bobby Hebb. It is one of the most performed and recorded popular songs, with hundreds of versions released.
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 26 March 2017 Blue Moon "Blue Moon" is a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad. It may be the first instance of the familiar "50s progression" in a popular song.
Songs 19 March 2017 Rock And Roll Music "Rock and Roll Music" is a 1957 hit single written and recorded by rock and roll icon Chuck Berry.
Songs 2 February 2017 You Never Can Tell "You Never Can Tell", also known as "C'est La Vie" or "Teenage Wedding", is a song written by Chuck Berry. It was composed in the early 1960s while Berry was in federal prison for violating the Mann Act.
Songs 31 January 2017 Mercy "Mercy" is a song performed by Welsh singer Duffy, released as the second single from her debut studio album, Rockferry (2008). Co-written by Duffy and Steve Booker and produced by Booker, it was released worldwide in 2008 to critical acclaim and unprecedented chart success.
Songs 3 July 2016 Ain't No Sunshine "Ain't No Sunshine" was released as a single in 1971, becoming a breakthrough hit for Withers, reaching number six on the U.S. R&B Chart and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 23 song for 1971.
Songs 3 July 2016 Ain't That A Shame "Ain't That A Shame" is a heartache song about a breakup that was the other partner's fault. Fats Domino wrote it with Dave Bartholomew, who worked on most of Domino's hits.
