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.
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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 February 2023 Love Is Blue (L'amour est bleu) "L'amour est bleu" ("Love Is Blue") is a song whose music was composed by André Popp, and whose lyrics were written by Pierre Cour, in 1967.
Songs 24 July 2021 Over The Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" is a ballad composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale.
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 8 November 2019 Suzy Snowflake "Suzy Snowflake" is a song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, made famous by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 and released as a 78 RPM record by Columbia Records. Suzy is a snowflake playfully personified.
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 28 March 2019 Lonesome Town "Lonesome Town" is a song written by Baker Knight and recorded by Ricky Nelson in 1958.
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 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 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 1 April 2018 When You Wore A Tulip Music by Percy Wenrich, Lyrics by Jack Mahoney. Publication date: 1914
Songs 26 February 2018 There Is A Tavern In The Town "There Is a Tavern in the Town" is a traditional folk song first appearing in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill's Student Songs. The song was the college anthem of Trinity University College.
Songs 19 October 2017 Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", first published in 1956, is a popular song written by the songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
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 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 3 December 2016 We Need A Little Christmas "We Need a Little Christmas" is a popular Christmas song originating from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical, Mame, and first performed by Angela Lansbury in that 1966 production.
Songs 7 May 2016 I Can See Clearly Now "I Can See Clearly Now" is a Billboard Hot 100 Chart #1 hit song, written and recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972.
Songs 20 March 2016 Doggie In The Window, The "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song published as having been written by Bob Merrill in 1952 and very loosely based on the folk tune, Carnival of Venice.
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 20 September 2013 Spooky "Spooky" was originally an instrumental song performed by saxophonist Mike Sharpe (Shapiro), written by Shapiro and Harry Middlebrooks, Jr., which first charted in 1967 hitting #57 on the US pop charts.
