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 10 April 2018 Green, Green Grass Of Home "Green, Green Grass of Home" was written by Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965.
Songs 6 April 2018 May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" is a 1965 novelty song performed by Little Jimmy Dickens.
Songs 24 March 2018 Abilene Abilene is a song written by Bob Gibson, Albert Stanton, Lester Brown and John D. Loudermilk, and recorded by American country music artist George Hamilton IV.
Songs 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
Songs 20 December 2015 Up On The Housetop "Up on the House Top" is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 in the town of New Paris, Ohio. It has been recorded by a multitude of singers, most notably Gene Autry in 1953. Hanby also wrote "Jolly Old St. Nicholas".
Songs 6 November 2015 In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night) "In the Pines", also known as "Black Girl" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", is a traditional American folk song which dates back to at least the 1870s, and is believed to be Southern Appalachian in origin.
Songs 8 January 2015 Little Girl and The Dreadful Snake, The There isn’t much history for a deep dive on this one. It’s a 20th century original. Bluegrass founding father Bill Monroe wrote “The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake” using the name Albert Price, one of his many pseudonyms.
Songs 8 January 2015 Jambalaya Released in July 1952, crediting Hank Williams as the sole author, it was performed by Williams as a country song. It reached number one on the U.S. country charts for fourteen non-consecutive weeks. "Jambalaya" remains one of Hank Williams' most popular songs today.
Songs 11 November 2014 Old Dan Tucker "Old Dan Tucker", also known as "Ole Dan Tucker", "Dan Tucker", and other variants, is an American popular song.
Songs 25 October 2013 Alone And Forsaken Hank Williams' recording of "Alone And Forsaken" was taken from one of his performances on the Shreveport radio station KWKH between August 1948 and May 1949.
Songs 25 October 2013 All The Good Times Are Past And Gone DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETAll The Good Times Are Past And Gone (WORD) All The Good Times Are Past And Gone (PDF) You can play along with
Songs 23 February 2013 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949.
Songs 13 October 2012 Long Black Veil "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.
Songs 11 April 2012 Frankie And Johnny "Frankie and Johnny" (sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert" or just "Frankie") is a traditional American popular song.
Songs 9 April 2012 Cripple Creek "Cripple Creek" is an Old Time Appalachian folk song for the fiddle, though it is often played on the banjo as well.
Songs 6 April 2012 In The Jailhouse Now "In the Jailhouse Now" is an American novelty blues song originally found in vaudeville performances from the early 20th century, usually credited to Jimmie Rodgers.
Songs 5 February 2012 Worried Man Blues "Worried Man Blues" is a folk song in the roots music repertoire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 4753.
Songs 15 November 2011 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a song written by Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Gene Autry's recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949.
Songs 15 November 2011 Frosty The Snowman "Frosty the Snowman" (or "Frosty the Snow Man") is a popular Christmas song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 and later recorded by Jimmy Durante, releasing it as a single.
Songs 22 August 2011 Hey Good Lookin' "Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
Songs 7 June 2011 You Are My Sunshine "You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song first recorded in 1939. Jimmie Davis and the Charles Mitchell Orchestra recorded a version in 1939, and it has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a country music singer and former governor of the state.
Songs 2 May 2011 Home On The Range "Home on the Range" was adapted from a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley (formerly a physician, who had moved to Kansas after the Homestead Act of 1862) called "My Western Home," first published in the Smith County Pioneer in 1873.
