"What's the Use of Worrying...?"
FELIX "OWELL, composer of " Pack | Up Your Troubles,’ perhaps the most popular song of the last war, was found shot in the stomach in the Home Guard Headquarters at Peacehaven, England, some weeks ago, with his rifle lying near by. It was a sad ending to an interesting story, which ran something like this: In 1915, when Felix Powell and his brother Ge-_rge were playing with the Harlequinaders at the London Hippodrome, ti.ey produced a song between them, set in six-eight time. It was laid aside, but a fortnight later Francis, Day, and Hunter, the song publishers, offered a hundred guineas for a marching song for the troops. Felix took his six-eight tune and with no difficulty transformed it into a two-four marching song. It won the prize, with the result that everybody knows.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 140, 27 February 1942, Page 11
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139"What's the Use of Worrying...?" New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 140, 27 February 1942, Page 11
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