Please Make Up Your Mind
" Please Make Up Your Mind"( aka" Why Do n't You Make Up Your Mind?") is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams and released as a" Luke the Drifter" single in 1952.
George Henry Powell
George Henry Powell( 27 April 1880 – 3 December 1951) was a Welsh songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song" Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit- Bag" in 1915.
The music was written by his brother Felix Powell, and the song was entered into a World War I competition for" best morale- building song".
It won first prize and was noted as" perhaps the most optimistic song ever written".
Although Felix Powell was an enthusiastic Staff Sergeant in the British Army, George Powell was a pacifist, and became a conscientious objector when conscription was imposed in 1916.
Lay Your Troubles Down
" Lay Your Troubles Down" was the third single for Angela Winbush's second album," The Real ThingLay Your Troubles Down" features her then husband Ronald Isley.
The song became her fourth top 10 solo single( eight in total) summer 1990.
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World War
I marching song, published in 1915 in London.
It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell.
It was featured in the American show "Her Soldier Boy", which opened in December 1916.
Performers associated with this song include Edward Hamilton, the Victor Military Band, James F. Harrison, Murray Johnson, Reinald Werrenrath, and the Knickerbocker Quartet.
A later play presented by the National Theatre recounts how these music hall stars rescued the song from their rejects pile and re-scored it to win a wartime competition for a marching song.
It became very popular, boosting British morale despite the horrors of that war.
It was one of a large number of music hall songs aimed at maintaining morale, recruiting for the forces, or defending Britain's war aims.
Another of these songs, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", was so similar in musical structure that the two were sometimes sung side by side.
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
" Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"( also known as" Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams( and Dream Your Troubles Away)") is a popular song written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, published in 1931.
The original 1931 popular hit recording was made by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra on March 2, 1931 for Victor Records, but the song has become a standard, recorded by many other artists since.
Bing Crosby recorded the song four times over his career as well as performing its film debut in the Mack Sennett short," One More Chance"( 1931).
An outtake from one of the sessions recorded on June 9, 1939 was preserved by blooper compiler Kermit Schafer in which Bing has his most famous “ blowup ” when he continues singing ad- lib and occasionally risqué words perfectly in tune.
That outtake was presented in the PBS" American Masters" episode" Bing Crosby Rediscovered".
Imogene Coca performed this song in an episode of" Your Show of Shows" while dressed as a hobo; the audience reaction was so favorable that she encored her version in the very last episode of the variety series, making this the only song she performed in two different episodes of" Your Show of Shows".
Anna McPartlin
Anna McPartlin is an Irish novelist.
Her novel" Pack Up the Moon"( 2006) was her debut feature.
There's A Picture In My Old Kit Bag
There's A Picture In My Old Kit Bag is a World War I song written and composed by Al Sweet.
This song was first published in 1918 by Ted Browne Music Co., in Chicago IL ..
The sheet music cover depicts a soldier in a trench looking at a picture.
The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum& Library.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
All the Kids Are Right
" All the Kids Are Right" is a song by American alternative rock band Local H.
The song was released as the lead single from the group's third studio album" Pack Up the Cats".
Felix Powell
Felix Lloyd Powell (23 May 1878 – 10 February 1942) was a Welsh British Army Staff Sergeant most famous for writing the music for marching song
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile", in 1915, during World War I.
The words were written by his brother George Henry Powell (under the pseudonym George Asaf), and the song was entered into a competition for "best morale-building song".
It won first prize and was noted as "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written".
Powell later wrote a musical play, "Rubicund Castle", which was staged at the Pavilion Theatre in Peacehaven.
When a West End producer bought it he drastically altered it, leaving only the music unchanged, and renamed it "Primrose Times".
This version went unstaged after the latter was arrested and convicted for fraud.
Powell committed suicide during World War II in 1942, aged 63.
Wearing the uniform of the Peacehaven Home Guard, he shot himself in the heart while on guard duty, using his own rifle.

Question: Why did the composer of song Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit-Bag die?