Jack M. Ilfrey
Jack Milton Ilfrey( July 31, 1920 – October 15, 2004) was a United States Army Air Forces fighter ace who was credited with shooting down seven and a half enemy aircraft during World War II and evading capture twice.
Ilfrey was known as Happy Jack for his cheerful disposition, and his ground crews in England nicknamed each of his planes" Happy Jack's Go Buggy".
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter best known as the guitarist, backing and secondary lead vocalist, principal songwriter, co-founder and leader of the rock band
The Who.
His career with the Who spans over 50 years, during which time the band grew to be one of the most important and influential rock bands of the 20th century.
Pete Townshend is the main songwriter for the Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band's 12 studio albums, including concept albums and the rock operas "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia", plus popular rock radio staples such as
"Who's Next", and dozens more that appeared as non-album singles,
bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations such as "Odds & Sods" (1974).
He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs.
Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar, and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums and as a guest contributor to an array of other artists' recordings.
He is self-taught on all of the instruments he plays and has never had any formal training.
Townshend has also contributed to and authored many newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, and he has collaborated as a lyricist and composer for many other musical acts.
Due to his aggressive playing style and innovative songwriting techniques, Townshend's works with The Who and in other projects have earned him critical acclaim.
He was ranked No. 3 in Dave Marsh's list of Best Guitarists in "The New Book of Rock Lists", No. 10
in Gibson.com's list of the top 50 guitarists, and No. 10 again in "Rolling Stone"s updated 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
In 1983, Townshend received the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement; in 1990, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who; in 2001, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Who; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors.
He and Roger Daltrey received The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Happy Jack (song)
"Happy Jack" is a song by the British rock band the Who.
It was released as a single in December 1966 in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 3 in the charts.
It peaked at No. 1 in Canada.
It was also their first top 40 hit in the United States, where it was released in March 1967 and peaked at No. 24.
It was included on the American version of their second album, "Happy Jack", originally titled "A Quick One" in the UK.
The song features Roger Daltrey on lead vocals with John Entwistle singing the first verse, making it one of the few songs composed by Pete Townshend to feature Entwistle on lead vocals.
Author Mike Segretto describes Daltrey's vocal as "imitating Burl Ives".
At the tail end of "Happy Jack", Townshend can be heard shouting "I saw you!"; it is said that he had noticed drummer Keith Moon trying to join in surreptitiously to add his voice to the recording, something the rest of the band would try to prevent
(Moon had a habit of making the other members laugh). "
Rolling Stone" critic Dave Marsh calls this line "the hippest thing" about the song.
According to some sources, Townshend reported the song is about a man who slept on the beach near where Townshend vacationed as a child.
Children on the beach would laugh at the man and once buried him in the sand.
However, the man never seemed to mind and only smiled in response.
According to Marsh, "the lyric is basically a fairy tale, not surprisingly, given the links to Pete's childhood".
Greg Littmann interprets the song as a possible reaction to alienation, as Jack allows "the cruelty of other people [to] slide off his back".
Despite its chart success, Who biographer
Greg Atkins describes the song as being the band's weakest single to that point.
Daltrey reportedly thought the song sounded like a "German oompah song".
But Chris Charlesworth praised the "high harmonies, quirky subject matter" and "fat bass and drums that suspend belief".
Charlesworth particularly praised Moon's drumming for carrying not just the beat, but also the melody itself, in what he calls "startlingly original fashion".
Marsh states that although the song contained little that the band had not done before, it did "what the band did well", giving the "soaring harmonies, enormously fat bass notes, thunderous drumming" and the guitar riffs as examples.
John Scaddan
John Scaddan, CMG( 4 August 1876 – 21 November 1934), popularly known as" Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.
Petrus de Domarto
Petrus de Domarto( fl. c. 1445– 1455) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.
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.
Evi Edna Ogholi
Evi Edna Ogholi( born 6 July 1965) is a Nigerian female reggae musician popular for her song" Happy Birthday".

Question: What is the award that the composer of song Happy Jack (Song) won?
Answer: Kennedy Center Honors