Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 April 2025 2025 - April BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on April 16, 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 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 07/06/25 1 January 2025 BUGs Will Be Playing @ Unitarian House of Ottawa! We're kicking off Seniors Month with residents, friends, and staff at Unitarian House on June 7, 2025!
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 30 December 2020 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" is a popular song written in 1947 by Frank Loesser as an independent song—not written for a particular movie or musical.
Songs 30 October 2019 Things "Things" is a song which was written and recorded by Bobby Darin in 1962.
Songs 24 October 2019 Chattanooga Choo Choo "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally recorded as a big band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade.
Songs 5 July 2019 Somethin' Stupid "Somethin' Stupid" is a song written by C. Carson Parks. It was originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as Carson and Gaile.
Songs 24 January 2019 Oh Lonesome Me "Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded in December 1957 by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins producing it for RCA Victor in Nashville.
Songs 29 October 2018 Sweet Georgia Brown "Sweet Georgia Brown" was composed in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey.
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 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 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 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 9 December 2015 Cool Yule "Cool Yule" is a 1953 Christmas song written by Steve Allen and introduced by Louis Armstrong.
Songs 3 July 2015 When The Saints Go Marching In The origins of this song are unclear. It apparently evolved in the early 1900s from a number of similarly titled gospel songs, including "When the Saints Are Marching In" (1896) and "When the Saints March In for Crowning" (1908).
Songs 1 May 2015 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune. It can be considered an early jump blues recording.The song is ranked No. 6 on Songs of the Century.
Songs 18 April 2015 My Honolulu Hula Girl Sonny Cunha, full name Albert Richard Cunha (October 1, 1879 – January 23, 1933) was an American composer, bandleader, pianist, singer, politician and entrepreneur.
Songs 2 April 2015 Attitude Of Gratitude The Swinging Belles, a JUNO award-winning swing band for kids from St. John’s, NL, are intent on getting both kids and adults to kick up their heels and have a swinging good time with the whole family!
Songs 4 November 2014 Stray Cat Strut "Stray Cat Strut" is the third single by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, released April 17, 1981 by Arista Records in the UK, where it peaked at No. 11 on the Singles Chart.
Songs 27 October 2014 Memories Are Made Of This "Memories Are Made of This" is a popular song written by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller in 1955. The song was first issued by Mindy Carson with Ray Conniff's Orchestra and The Columbians. Carson's version reached No. 53 on Billboard's Top 100 chart.
Songs 9 February 2014 La Vie En Rose "La Vie en rose" (French for "Life in pink") is the signature song of popular French singer Édith Piaf, written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947.
Songs 28 December 2013 Bring Me Sunshine "Bring Me Sunshine" is a song written in 1966 by the composer Arthur Kent, with lyrics by Sylvia Dee.
Songs 28 December 2013 Diana The song "Diana" brought Ottawa native Paul Anka stardom in 1957 as it rocketed to #1 on the Canadian and U.S. music charts. "Diana" is one of the best selling singles ever by a Canadian recording artist.
Songs 8 December 2013 Must Be Santa "Must Be Santa" is a Christmas song written by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks and first released in November 1960 by Mitch Miller. A cover version by Tommy Steele reached Number 40 on the UK Singles Chart in the same year.
Songs 19 January 2013 Yellow Bird Choucoune (Haitian Creole: Choukoun) is a 19th-century Haitian song composed by Michel Mauléart Monton in 1893 with lyrics from an 1883 poem by Oswald Durand.
Songs 6 August 2012 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" is an American popular song published in 1931, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, and first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931.
