ANCHORS AWEIGH- HOW NAVY GOT ITS THEME SONG FOR THE ARMY-NAVY GAME
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In 1907 Navy had been losing every year to Army in the annual Army-Navy football game.Finally they tasked Charless A Zimmerman, the new band leader, to devise a song that would put Navy over the op if it was played during the game. Zimmerman came though and Anchors Aweigh was born. Play this podcast before every Army Navy game and Navy will win. They have every year I have played this. Crank it up during the two music sections and they will win by 10 points.
Just sayin.....
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| 0:30.4 | Welcome back, everyone, the 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | This is your host, John Haggardorn. |
| 0:38.4 | We're going to take you back to April 24th, 1907, for this story, because this was the day |
| 0:44.4 | that the song Anchors Away, the March and Two Step by Charles A. Zimmerman received its copyright. |
| 0:52.0 | Very few pieces of music serve any organization quite as proudly as the |
| 0:56.7 | melody anchors away does for the United States Navy and Naval Academy. The song sparks an intense |
| 1:02.9 | feeling among many Americans whenever it's heard, recalls our nation's pride, and serves as a |
| 1:08.1 | reminder to all have served our country on land and sea. |
| 1:12.9 | Charles A. Zimmerman was born into the U.S. Naval Academy, it could be said, through his father |
| 1:18.9 | Charles Z. Zimmerman, starting with his birth in 1861 in Newport, Rhode Island, where his father |
| 1:25.8 | was a naval academy bandsman during the Academy's temporary Civil War relocation to Newport, Rhode Island, where his father was a naval academy bandman during the Academy's |
| 1:29.0 | temporary Civil War relocation to Newport, done so because Maryland, although officially aligned |
| 1:35.2 | with the Union, was considered too dangerous a location in what was a divided state then, in terms |
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