ANCHORS AWEIGH-HOW NAVY GOT ITS MARCHING SONG

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	You're And the Hi everyone this is John Hagadorn and welcome to
0:27.7	one stories for the road also known as caffeine for the curious and your home for good old-fashioned entertainment.
0:35.0	We're going to take you back to April 24, 1907 for this story because this was the day that the song Anchors Away, the March and Two Step by Charles A Zimmerman, received its copyright.
0:49.0	Very few pieces of music serve any organization quite as proudly as the melody anchors away does for the United States Navy and Naval Academy.
0:58.0	The song sparks an intense feeling among many Americans whenever it's heard,
1:03.2	recalls our nation's pride and serves as a reminder
1:06.0	to all have served our country on land and sea.
1:10.4	Charles A Zimmerman was born into the U.S. Naval Academy.
1:14.5	It could be said through his father, Charles Z Zimmerman,
1:18.4	starting with his birth in 1861 in Newport, Rhode Island, where his father was a naval academy bandsman during the academy's temporary
1:27.2	civil war relocation to Newport.
1:30.0	Done so because Maryland, although officially aligned with the Union, was considered too dangerous a location in what was a divided state then in terms of loyalties.
1:39.0	When he reached adulthood, Charles attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, and, upon graduating in 1882, became a member of the U.S. Navy Band as a third coronetist.
1:52.0	Five years later, he relieved Peter Schaaf as Bandmaster, making Charles Jr.
1:57.3	now at age 26, the youngest ever to assume leadership of the Naval Academy Band.
2:03.0	When Grover, Cleveland became president in 1893,
2:07.0	Zimmerman had the honor of attaining national recognition
2:10.0	by conducting an orchestra of 120 musicians for the inaugural ball.
2:15.0	Four years later, when John Philip Susa asked him to consider becoming the director of the Marine Band,
2:21.0	Charles declined, wanting to continue composing and guest conducting
2:26.0	minus the pressures that directing the U.S. Marine Band under the highly popular and heavily
2:31.2	demanded Susa would present.
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