The music contains elements of the 1963 ska song "Wash Your Troubles Away" by Prince Buster.

"[1] "Pack Up" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart at number 15 on 9 July 2010, marking Doolittle's first top 40 hit in Ireland.

[3] It starts with the singer being ejected from a passing truck, apparently inside a suitcase, and then catching a bus.

The video ends with her sitting in a dinghy, near the beach, after throwing a suitcase (containing a transistor radio) into the sea (an interpretation of the lyric "pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and bury them beneath the sea").

In the video the Lloyd Wade "pack up" main hook line appears to be voiced first by an elderly keeper of a drapers' shop and later by the bass player of the dance band.